<story><title>On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (1992) [pdf]</title><url>http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/adegani/Flight-Deck_Documentation.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Chris_Newton</author><text>As a cautionary note, a few of the claims in this document don’t stand up well in light of more recent research. If you’re interested in the technical aspects of typography and how humans really read text, you might like to try these more up-to-date starting points:&lt;p&gt;Alex Poole’s “Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?”:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alexpoole.info&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kevin Larson’s “The Science of Word Recognition”:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/wordrecognition.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;typography&amp;#x2F;ctfonts&amp;#x2F;wordrecognition....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In particular, if you’re about to comment on how serifs or sans-serifs are better for X, or to explain how we read by following the serifs along a line or by recognising word shapes, I strongly encourage you to study the above first.&lt;p&gt;There are unfortunately a lot of urban legends in typography that simply aren’t supported by the evidence. Some of them came about because of studies that have since been shown to be flawed in methodology or even based on outright falsified data. We help no-one by perpetuating the myths.</text></comment>
<story><title>On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (1992) [pdf]</title><url>http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/adegani/Flight-Deck_Documentation.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pranjalv123</author><text>I really dislike how sans-serif fonts conflate the lowercase &amp;quot;L&amp;quot; and the uppercase &amp;quot;i&amp;quot;. This is a big problem in mail clients where someone can create email addresses that look identical to established addresses (e.g. Iarry@google.com).</text></comment>