spectrum.ieee.org: By Kevin Larson

Type designers, psychologists, and engineers are joining forces to improve reading onscreen.

If you’re reading this article on your computer, there’s a good chance you won’t get all the way to the end. Not because you won’t find it utterly fascinating (trust me!), but because it will be hard on your eyes.

It’s not sentimentality that makes most people prefer reading books and magazines to squinting at their laptops. The quality of computer text is awful. It doesn’t have to be. [ read more ]