Why You Should Stop Using Times New Roman (Research Explains)

MY PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BrainCraft SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! 👉 http://ow.ly/rt5IE Paola's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/PaolaKBuitrago Matthew's TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYPwelp7js Many claim that Times New Roman is the most readable or accessible font – but is this really true? We dive into font research to explore the accessibility of Arial, Comic Sans, and fonts like Open Dyslexic. Is there one that stands out from the rest? Or is the world of typefaces as subjective as our opinions about design? My Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill A big thanks to Paola Kassa and Matthew Shifrin for their contributions to this episode. Created & produced by Vanessa Hill. Edited by Dominique Taylor. Research by Hannah Thomasy REFERENCES 📚 READABILITY https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/pdf/nihms729523.pdf https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-10873-003 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Towards-Readability-Individuation%3A-The-Right-to-on-Wallace-Treitman/72b7afdb762a8b0e03e8d9e4b0a9a59f1c99e0a3 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/634067.634173#:~:text=A%20significant%20main%20effect%20of,serif%20or%20sans%20serif%20fonts. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858204 Emotional content and colours: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18459353/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3132525.3132546 ACCESSIBILITY https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2513383.2513447 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26993270/#:~:text=OpenDyslexic%20was%20compared%20to%20Arial,(c)%20nonsense%20word%20reading.&text=Results%20from%20this%20alternating%20treatment,the%20group%20as%20a%20whole. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2513383.2513447 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00220671.2012.736430?needAccess=true https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513105008812?casa_token=P1wuF_Fg-7cAAAAA:Jcxpf9z5Gb7RKusXYg8csBiOP6JwJ9yThILEY4z7C4ayf93RQTQSuykgGM_QplLLfjHAyng2CoDG#fig1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008418212004693?casa_token=lcvTIaXFNeMAAAAA:Wy8pYsAgODvtGHREroGQx3szr2nOvHV5_81f5rWaGHHSZx6GliKn5mI0WfKE2pvuWYMInnzFgqGa https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726769/pdf/nihms852548.pdf Alex Chen’s post: https://medium.com/queer-design-club/the-controversy-of-accessible-type-8def04eb8808 FONT HISTORY https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/12/09/times-new-roman https://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/arial/story https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/calibris-scandalous-history https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2021/04/28/microsoft-word-which-of-these-will-be-the-new-default-font/?sh=7ba9194f4dcf


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