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Effects of Background, Underline, and Color on Readability of Visually Displayed Text  

Oh, Seung-Bin (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hannam University)
Park, Sung-Ha (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hannam University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering / v.32, no.4, 2009 , pp. 208-214 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we examined the effects of background and underline on the readability of displayed text. The background was placed on every other line and the underline was done with every line of the text. The effect of adding color to the background and underline was also of primary concern. Twenty subjects were tested on their reading efficiency (i.e. time-to-read and comprehension) and subjective preference of different text format presented on a LCD. Result showed that for the background condition, the background with green format significantly decreased the time-to-read as compared to the format without any background. The results of ANOVA on comprehension and subjective preference were also consistent with this finding. For the underline condition, otherwise, the underline with yellow format yielded higher speed and better comprehension. The results imply that adding background or underlines with appropriate colors can be an additional and useful way of improving text readability.
Keywords
Text Readability; Legibility; Visual Display;
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