Two newly designed fonts and the Lincoln/Mitre font are compared for legibility using tachistoscopic presentation and forced identification. All three fonts were constructed with a matrix of 5 × 7 dots and were presented with a computer-generated display. The results were analyzed parametrically in terms of total identification errors and by conventional confusion matrices. The analysis showed significantly fewer errors with the font utilizing the largest number of dots per symbol than with either of the other two fonts. The confusion matrices revealed that the most severe confusions occur for different characters in different fonts.
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