Letter similarity study in Devanagari

07 September 2017

The study looks at shape resemblance between letters of the Devanagari script. Participants will be presented with a sequence of letter triplets. The triplets use the same letters in various combinations. For each triplet, they will be asked to quickly pick the most different letter (the odd one out).

Requirements

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Keywords

• University of Reading
• SImilarity
• characters
• fonts
• typography
• cognition

Ethical approval

This project has been reviewed by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Reading and has been given a favourable ethical opinion for conduct.

About the researcher

David Březina is a type designer and a PhD candidate at the University of Reading (Department of Typography & Graphic Communication). Funded by Design Star.

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