A seminar that discusses Michael Twyman‘s notation system for establishing typographic hierarchy (headings and paragraph) and a summary of Herbert Spencer’s review of literature of over 100 years of legibility research. Useful for typographers to inform their design decisions.
Twyman, M (1981) ‘Typography without words’, in Visible Language, XV no. 1, 5–12
Spencer, Herbert (1969) The visible word. London: Lund Humphries and Royal College of Art
Typographic hierarchy and legibility research from Keith Tam