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Your website's purpose is to inform something, right? So let's do this in an easy way for the reader! No matter how interesting, fun or exciting is your text, if it is difficult to read, you will give up halfway. So think carefully before choosing your typeface.

 

Comparing two distinct texts on the same screen, it is perceived how a well-chosen font size and with correct spacing facilitates reading. DASartes magazine has the line length extensive and the condensed font requires extra spacing, that was'nt applied. In the case of Triple Canopy, the serif font is more comfortable to be read, and the line length and spacing are balanced.

#5 Legibility and readability

 

 

 

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This text can be tiresome to be readen because the extensive line lenghts don'y offer many pauses.

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Allying a serif font and adequate measurements of line lenght ans spacements, this text becomes more legible and readable.

© Ana Retore, 2015 - These guidelines are based on results supported by undergraduate thesis for the Graphic Design course at Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil.

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