Ugraphia : The Pursuit of Perfect Legibility
Vlad Atanasiu
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
| Omfang | 1 bind : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Is perfect legibility, Ugraphia, possible outside of Thomas More’s Utopia? Understanding the limits of legibility is of practical relevance to typeface design and optometry, in addition to being of theoretical interest for research in human communication. Drawing on a wide range of material from paleography, typography, psychology, information theory, and cinema, and supplemented with an original experiment in script design, its argument reflected in idiosyncratically writing and layout styles, this cross-cultural history of legibility explores an interlocking complex of factors affecting progress in the long-term evolution of legibility.Ugraphia reveals the divergence between industrial ideals, scientific theories, and popular representations of legibility, how power games are played and aesthetic fashions develop through scripts. Already loaded with heritage, scripts are being concomitantly constrained by character frequency variation between languages, visual perceptual effects, the kinematics of handwriting production, and the evolution of imaging, print and display technologies. There is limited progress found with respect to character structure, and a persistent flow and ebb in the legibility of handwriting (‘bioscript’); however, there is ample optimization of artificially produced writing (‘mechascript’), as well as a potential improvement in reading performance due to script proliferation and diversification. -- Editor's website
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| ISBN | 9782487055001
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