For our next Design Principles lesson, we were set the task of arranging the words "the quick brown fox", each word in either a block, gothic, script or roman font to test the legibility of each font. As some fonts stand out more than others, we were told to play with the scale and positioning of the words to try and get it to read correctly. Below are my outcomes:
The script font is the least legible font so I scaled it up to make it the most noticeable when reading, although the block font's lack of negative space forces it to stand out and have a lot of impact. The gothic and roman font are both very legible so I simply scaled them down to make sure they are the last ones read.
I believe this is one of the most successful arrangements as the gothic font is noticeably the easiest to read, and the difference in scale between the script font to the block and roman font forces it to be read correctly.
With the arrangement above I was purely looking at the scale of the fonts. The gothic font stands out at first, although it is hard to decide if the script of block font should be read second. I should have arranged the script font under the gothic as this is the natural way in which we have been taught to read (the the right / downwards). It would be easier to read if I had given the reader a path to read along, like I have done below.
By arranging the words in a path, it makes it more obvious to the reader how it should be read. I also found that having the block font sideways, countered the fact it stands out so much, and made it less noticeable.
This arrangement also leads the readers eye along the path forcing the phrase to be read correctly. In the lesson we also noticed that this could also be seen in it's sides and still read correct because of this.
