Pranica: Review Chapter 4 and 5

Chapter 4 discusses the idea of Legibility based in the many aspects of font style, spacing, order, and environment. The chapter begins by talking about fonts in general, how the legibility of fonts is easier to read on the left side and vowels can be some of the hardest legible fonts. Other letters such as f j i and l can be easily confused for one another leading to a harder task on the individual. Whether a font is capitalized or not heavily impacts the size of the font and its spacing across a field. This can affect or slow down the speed of readers. The space in-between letters can also be a hinderance whether the letters are too close together or spread to far apart. There is also to consider the placing of letters in a group on a page such as in a paragraph. The size of the paragraph and format needs to be in an easy enough column or read without fatiguing or over exerting the eyes movements. Color and contrast on a page is also a very important factor allowing the letters to have an individual strength to them. If colors of not a high enough contrast are put on top of each other the strength of the type can get lost. In general the chapter stresses the need for an ease of reading and understanding a message found on the page. Chapter 5 continues on the readability of type but changes the subject to types location on a page. It discusses the use of grids on a page allowing for the organization of columns and images to be placed in a neat and non stressing design on the page. Creating a rhythem that can be easily repeated over and over again without causing stress on a page helps the reader move across the text with ease. It also adds into the equations horizontal rows as well creating "modules"which split up the page even further allowing for more complex forms of organization while still keeping type legible and simple to follow.

I find this image interesting due to its use of contrast between the alternation of the black background and white type and vice versa.