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Information Design JournalVol. 28:2 (2023) ► pp.178–194
Empirical assessment of the legibility of the Naskh-style typeface used on Arabic road signs
Most studies on the legibility of highway signs focus on the legibility of Latin typefaces. Few legibility studies of Arabic typefaces are considered in highway signage. The current study is an empirical assessment of the legibility of the Boutros Advertisers Naskh Arabic typeface, the typeface commonly used in road signage in most Middle Eastern and North African countries. The study uses common highway signs configuration within a laboratory-based simulated driving experience. The results show that Boutros Advertisers Naskh has a high threshold, which indicates low legibility on road signs, and that it requires significant improvements for continued use.
Keywords: legibility, road signs, transport information, psychophysical methods, Arabic typographic research
Article outline
- Introduction
- The current study
- What is legibility?
- Arabic Type
- Assessment of Legibility Material and Methods
- Participants
- Apparatus, stimuli, and task
- The word set
- Threshold measure procedure
- Results
- Discussion
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