Legibility of Alphanumeric Characters and Other Symbols

Abstract

This permuted title index and bibliography to the literature on the legibility of alphanumeric characters and other symbols includes 325 references. Due to the confusion and overlap of terminology in the legibility literature, this report uses the term legibility to include legibility, readability, perceptibility, visibility and any other closely related concepts. Other symbols include such items as the arrows and other coded symbols used to present information on radar displays. The psychological literature on perception has been included only when it was closely involved with the specific problems of alphanumeric characters and other meaningful symbols. Studies concerned with environmental variables, i.e. illumination and symbol-background contrast, and the legibility of dials and scales have received little attention. An author index is included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 15, 1964
Accession Number
AD0453458

Entities

People

  • Douglas Y. Cornog
  • F. C. Rose
  • Josephine L. Walkowicz

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Applied Psychology
  • Commerce
  • Control Panels
  • Educational Psychology
  • Engineers
  • Geometric Forms
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Industrial Psychology
  • Information Processing
  • Literature Surveys
  • Measurement
  • Psychology
  • Structural Components
  • Students
  • United States
  • Word Recognition

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Library and Information Science