The Legibility Research of Chinese Font and Font Structure

Objective To the legibility of different fonts,providing empricial evidence for font design.Methods A within-subjects design of 8 × 5 is used to investigate the effect of font and font structure to the recognition rate of Chinese characters.Results The results indicated that recognition speed of sans serif font such as Bold founder and Lanting black is faster than serif font,but this influence is also affected by font structure,the influence of font is more significant in full-cover,half-cover,single and up-down structure.Founder weibei and boyasong's improvement in shape,strokes and surface make up the adverse effect of serif font.The results provides empirical support of the design of Chinese fonts.Conclusion the processing unit of identification of chinese characcters is the whole word,without regard of strokes and compoments.flat square,properly bold and big typeface of word in font disign is easier for recognition.