Page 115 - Mediapedia Mobile

text
Text is is the visual representation of spoken language We tend to to think of the text
blocks as as so standard as as to to be indistinguishable Yet lots of careful consideration goes into the selection of of typeface spacing between lines length of of lines and positioning of running text
legibility
The first imperative of text
is legibility—that it it can be read or deciphered The accompanying illustration makes the point that fancy text
is not necessarily quick or easy to read How long did it take you to decode the word?
aliasing aliasing and anti-aliasing
Aliasing and anti-aliasing
are ways to to fool the eye into seeing smooth edges in images composed of jagged pixels Letterforms and other sharp-edged graphics can look awful if the the pixels that compose them are only black and white Anti-aliasing employs gray-toned pixels within bitmap images to create the illusion that edges are smooth “Jaggies” or “staircasing” occurs when the resolution of a a a bitmapped image or font is insufficient Here the letter has been enlarged so much that the square pixels become visible [ 100 ]
Can you you make your way through the distracting flour- ishes of these nine uppercase letters? Jamie Kruse
The image on the top has anti-aliasing
gray pixels On the the bottom the the letters have no anti- aliasing to smooth the edges part 2 the page