모니터 디스플레이에 적합한 가독성의 요건: 거시미학과 미시미학

Abstract

As the communication through internet has recently played a significant role in our daily lives, display on monitor has gained a new meaning not as a pre-process for print but as a representative medium itself. Internet has been showing a dialectical developments by continuous expending information in quantity and quality to meet needs of sharing knowledge and communicating. The more the significance of the display on monitor is increasing, the more a new appropriate typography for monitor is needed. But it is hard to find any distinguished guidelines with scientific and logical background. Generally traditional typography is suggested for monitor but it is not proved as effective supported by scientific research and usability test results. Typography is built on the basis of three factors, that is, cognitive ability of human beings, conventional usage and the existing technologies, as I mentioned in the preceding papers. Considering that the two former factors are not easily changeable, we will be able to use the traditional typography for monitor, but under the condition that it has to be retuned for the new display technology, monitor. This paper attempts to find a new perfect typography on monitor by analyzing the traditional typography and results of usability tests. The goal is to find not only new rules but also a typographic system. The structure of typography is analyzed in two categories: Macro- and Micro Typography.