Penny Barker

List of John Benjamins publications for which Penny Barker plays a role.

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Barker, Penny, Max Hailstone and Murray Simmonds 1986 An experimental study of some effects of figure-ground contrast on the use of street maps Information Design Journal 4:3, pp. 212–220 | Article
Nine different formats of a street map were designed to test effects of contrast between city blocks, streets and street names. The position of the streets and their names remained constant. The contrast between city blocks, streets and names was varied by using combinations of black, white and… read more