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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2015.17.2.153

Legibility Evaluation of Words Used in Pesticide Products According to Age in Same Near Visual Acuity  

Hwang, Hae Young (Department of Visual Optics, Kyungwoon University)
Song, Young Woong (Department of Occupational Health, Catholic University of Daegu)
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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.17, no.2, 2015 , pp. 153-160 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study tried to investigate the difference of the legibility in different age groups (young and old) with same near visual acuity and to provide preliminary guidelines for the text sizes in the pesticides products based on the legibility experiments. To achieve the objective, legibility evaluation experiments were conducted to test the effects of different age(20s, 50-60s), gender, font type(thick gothic-type and fine gothic-type), thickness (plain and bold), and number of syllables(2 and 3 syllables) in the same near visual acuity(0.6). The results showed that legibility 50s was higher than 20s. And 20s are appealed higher discomfort than 50s. Considering these experimental results, it was recommended that the 14 pt or larger characters (100% readable size) should be used the important information such as toxicity, and the minimum character size was 7 pt (50% readable size) for other information.
Keywords
pesticides products label; legibility evaluation; reading discomfort; minimum character size;
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