[IxDA Discuss] Fonts for small screens

[Gretchen Anderson]

I work on small devices for the elderly and, the best practices that I've found are to use heavier type (Arial Bold/Arial Narrow Bold variants) at a minimum character height of 2.5mm. We've tested prototypes that make use of these specs with older people and always gotten positive marks for readability.

Narrow type affords more space, with a slight readability loss. 

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From: discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com on behalf of Cesare Rocchi
Sent: Mon 7/17/2006 7:21 AM
To: Interaction Designers
Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Fonts for small screens
 
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Hello,

Has anybody any pointer/theory/experiment about the fonts which are better
(that is, enable better reading) for small (e.g. PDA) screens?

Thanks,

-c.

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Rocchi Cesare
ITC-Irst Trento (Italy)
http://tcc.itc.it/people/rocchi.html

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