Reading Online Text

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004 at 8:54 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 2 comments

Usability News has released a study: Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts. I tried to read it, but I find it difficult to read. Not in terms of vocabulary, but in terms of presentation. Italics is hard to read especially when I have a headache. I limit italics in online writing – in some cases, I have no choice because of the style guidelines.

Anyway, the comparison of four white space layouts sounds like something I want to know, but I just couldn’t get through it. Anyone have trouble reading it? If so, why?

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  • Posted by Alex on July 22nd, 2004, 1:01 AM

    I found it a bit hard to read – not really sure why, but I think it may be the background color.

    The whole article, basically, points out that using margins lowers the reading speed, but improves comprehension, and vice versa.

  • Posted by Alex on July 22nd, 2004, 1:01 AM

    I found it a bit hard to read – not really sure why, but I think it may be the background color.

    The whole article, basically, points out that using margins lowers the reading speed, but improves comprehension, and vice versa.

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