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http://dx.doi.org/10.7232/JKIIE.2015.41.1.059

Legible and Preferred Korean Sizes for Various Colors and Fonts  

Jung, Kihyo (School of Industrial Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers / v.41, no.1, 2015 , pp. 59-63 More about this Journal
Abstract
A design guideline about legible and preferred Korean character sizes is necessary to provide better visual information in a group-view display. The present study examined the legible and preferred Korean character sizes by an experiment employing eight background-font colors and four representative font types (Gulim, Ming, Gothic, and Batang). Forty subjects (male : 20 and female : 20) in their 20s were recruited for the experiment. The legible and preferred sizes were determined based on the method of limits, one of psychological approaches. The results showed that the legible and preferred sizes increased as the contrast between background and font colors decreased. In addition, the legible and preferred sizes for Gulim were significantly smaller than those of the other font types. It is expected that the present study may contribute to providing better visual information in a group view display.
Keywords
Legible Korean Size; Preferred Korean Size; Visual Information Design; Group-view Display;
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