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Letterform Design

Letterform Design is the systematic discipline of creating and refining the visual form of individual letters within a typographic system, distinguished by its focus on the structural, aesthetic, and functional attributes that govern the shape, proportion, and spatial relationships of glyphs.

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A system of tone letters

Yuen Ren Chao · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1930 · 277 citations

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<b>Standard alphabet for reducing unwritten languages and foreign graphic systems to a uniform orthography in European letters</b> . By Richard Lepsius. 2nd, revised edition (London, 1863), ed. with an introduction by J. Alan Kemp. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, I: Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 5.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1981. Pp. viii, 99*, xvii, 336. <i>f</i> 95.00.

Carol M. Eastman · Language · 1982 · 230 citations

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Serifs and font legibility

Aries Arditi, Jianna Cho · Vision Research · 2005 · 157 citations

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Handwriting in America: a cultural history

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 154 citations

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Why Alphabetic Keyboards Are Not Easy to Use: Keyboard Layout Doesn't Much Matter

Donald A. Norman, Diane G. Fisher · Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society · 1982 · 146 citations

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Authors

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  1. EB
    E. Brumberger

    Virginia Tech, United States

    2 publications · 177 citations

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  2. JO
    Jacob O. Wobbrock

    University of Washington, United States

    2 publications · 36 citations

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  3. HW
    H. W. F. Saggs

    Universidad de Londres, Mexico

    2 publications · 88 citations

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  4. NC
    Nadine Chahine

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  5. KK
    Kouichi Konno

    Iwate University, Japan

    1 publications · 30 citations

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Institutions

90

  1. IBM (United States)

    Armonk, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    62 citations

  2. Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    177 citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    66 citations

  4. University of Trieste

    Trieste, Italy

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    150 citations

  5. University of Central Florida

    Orlando, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    116 citations

  6. Brigham Young University

    Provo, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  7. Intel (United States)

    Santa Clara, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  8. Health Sciences Authority

    Singapore, Singapore

    1 h-index

    5 publications

    120 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 7 publications · 423 citations

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  2. Perception & Psychophysics

    3 publications · 201 citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Psychology

    3 publications · 74 citations

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  4. Medical Entomology and Zoology

    3 publications · 333 citations

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  5. Journal of Forensic Sciences

    JOFS · 2 publications · 38 citations

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