Legibility in Black and White – Visual Performance-guided Font design -  Octavio Pardo
Channel: GRANSHAN Conference
Date: 2022-09-20

Nowadays, due to the increase in life expectancy, the problem of low vision is enormous. Impairments like glaucoma, myopia, or macular degeneration are at pandemic levels. How can we design adapted fonts for these individuals? In this presentation I will introduce a new method developed during my PhD consisting of two elements: First, an ultra-flexible variable font, built over a new paradigm of typographic analysis, which denies the value of traditional variables (weight, width, contrast...) and puts the focus on our visual system and our ability to perceive information distribution in space. Second, a self-learning Bayesian algorithm that measures the participant's reading speed and governs the variation inside the font space seeking the configurations with the highest speed.