When it comes to glancing at small text, like on a phone alert, X height is a big factor in font readability. Researchers studying drug labels have found that X height was much more important than ...

[David Johnson-Davies] entered big-brain mode and did something much cleverer than the obvious solution of using multiple font files. Turns out if you analyze the smoothing problem you’ll ...

Messages sent via email are communicated more effectively when properly formatted, including the font size. If the text size is too small to read, it can discourage the recipient from reading the ...

Yes, there’s a one-pixel wide blank space running horizontally and vertically through each big character ... like the magnetic character recognition font on the bottom of bank checks.