Akhmadeeva Leyla, Tukhvatullin Ilnar, Veytsman Boris
Bashkir State Medical University, Ufa, Russia.
Vision Res. 2012 Jul 15;65:21-4. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.05.013. Epub 2012 Jun 13.
The role of serifs for the comprehension of printed text has been controversial in the literature. The analysis was often confounded by the fact that fonts used for comparison have many differences besides being serif or sans-serif. In this study we use fonts from the same foundry and meta family to assess the differences in reading comprehension for Cyrillic readers (n=238). The results show no difference in the speed of reading and the comprehension between the serif and sans-serif texts. This conclusion is consistent with the ecological hypothesis recently formulated for font sizes.
衬线字体在印刷文本理解中的作用在文献中一直存在争议。以往的分析常常因这样一个事实而混淆：用于比较的字体除了有衬线或无衬线之分外，还有许多其他差异。在本研究中，我们使用来自同一铸造厂和元家族的字体，以评估西里尔文读者（n = 238）在阅读理解方面的差异。结果表明，衬线字体文本和无衬线字体文本在阅读速度和理解方面没有差异。这一结论与最近针对字体大小提出的生态假说一致。
