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"racing back and forth about twice as frantically" -- I need a font to be a certain size in order to be legible, be it letters or dots. If anything, a wider fo

• trogdoro 15y ago
  > If anything, a wider font means my saccades need be less accurate. Then using a font where letters are, say, half an inch wide would be even better, eh? > What do you mean by "proportional shortcomings"? The ratio of the height to width is about the same proportion as a roman letter, resulting in letters and sentences that are very long and narrow, requiring a lot of movement from your eyes. Think using a telescope to examine a long garden hose vs a short fire hose. The visual field of the telescope is analogous to the sweet spot of your retina. > humans don't read letter by letter but rather word by word. You've hit on the strong-point of dotsies. Look a paragraph of dotsies text, and you'll see that in the words the letters appear to form contiguous shapes.