Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

New Fonts For Documents

Nice new fonts for Office 12 documents ...

"Last month, I introduced Segoe UI, the new user interface font for Office 12 and Windows Vista.

Of course, you spend most of your time in Office not looking at the user interface, but working with documents. Times New Roman has been Word's default font since Word 6.0 introduced support for TrueType fonts. Although there are numerous other options available, most documents today are produced in Times New Roman, Arial, or more recently the Web-friendly choice Verdana.

Office 12 ships with six brand new fonts designed for use with the content in your document. Each of the fonts is optimized for ClearType and suitable for use both on-screen and in printed documents.

Below, courtesy of Microsoft's Advanced Reading Technology team, are pictures of the six new fonts along with brief descriptions of each font."   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

Corbel type font. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Corbel font for a clean screen.

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