On the Portability of Computer-Generated Presentations: The Effect of Text-Background Color Combinations on Text Legibility

Greco, Massimo; Stucchi, Natale; Zavagno, Daniele; Marino, Barbara F. M.

doi:10.1518/001872008x354156

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“…Our findings appear to give support to both researchers: Black/White and Blue/ White led to the best performance resulting in the fastest reading speed. These findings agreed with recent research by Greco et al (2008). However, our results contrast with those of Matthews et al (1989) and Pastoor (1990) in which they observed no effect of using red or blue stimuli.…”

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Evaluating college students’ performance of Arabic typeface style, font size, page layout and foreground/background color combinations of e-book materials

Ramadan

2011

Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences

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The present study was conducted to explore students' preference of Arabic typeface style, font size, page layout, and foreground/background color combinations of written materials. Legibility and readability guidelines described in the literature are written for Western readers; make it difficult for e-book providers to know exactly what recommendations to follow in Arabic. First, the participants completed the font style selection process from among all the Arabic font styles available in Windows. They were then asked to select the typeface style (Simplified, Traditional, Kofi, and Nassekh) and font size (10-, 12-, and 14-point) they preferred when reading e-passages. Finally, they read another group of e-passages in the typeface style and font size they had selected in oneand two-column formats with four foreground/background color combinations. To assess their reading speed and comprehension as well as their preferences, we asked questions about the information they had read. In Experiment 1, 49 participants preferred 170 font styles from a pool of 877 presented in 12-point font size. In Experiment 2, 31 participants selected 14-pt Arabic simplified as a good readable font style for next experiment. In Experiment 3, 31 participants preferred to read Arabic materials in one column with black/white for foreground/background color combination. Participants were able to read the e-materials significantly faster and with better comprehension *

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Section: Text/background Color Combination Of E-booksupporting

confidence: 92%

Evaluating college students’ performance of Arabic typeface style, font size, page layout and foreground/background color combinations of e-book materials

Ramadan

2011

Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences

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“…Moreover experimental results revealed that e-book displays with larger color differences of the text/ background, color-combinations resulted in higher subject reading performance and subjective preferences, which were similar to the conclusions of other studies (Wang et al, 2004;Ramadan and Mohamed, 2010). The ndings appear to give support to both researchers: Black/White and Blue/ White led to the best performance resulting in the fastest reading are supported by the recent research by Greco et al (2008). Almost the same pattern of differences was found in both reading speed and comprehension measures which show that overall the Black/White combination led to high performance compared to the other combinations.…”

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Affective Engineering of Background Colour in Digital Storytelling for Remedial Students

Yussof

Abas

Paris

2012

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The main purpose of the research is to identify the background colour that gives affection to remedial students in the reading environment using digital storytelling. The affective domains studied are motivation and feeling towards background colour. The methodology reports on: ( interest, behaviour and level of difficulty during reading process; (ii) design of digital storytelling contents: colour, background colour, graphics, interface and interaction design. This paper focuses on (i) the research background which gives an overview of the research objectives, users, digital storytelling, colour psychology and affective engineering; (ii) the digital storytelling framework with focus on background colour.

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“…In fact, contrast in brightness affects performance in various visual tasks and subjective evaluations concerning the legibility of texts and icons. Furthermore, legibility tightly correlates with pleasantness . Thus, contrast in lightness facilitates object recognition.…”

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Computational color combination analysis of Papilionidae butterflies as aesthetic objects

Kakehashi

Muramatsu

Hibino

2019

Color Research & Application

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In this study, our aim is to clarify the color combination rules of the human‐preferred Papilionidae butterflies as aesthetic objects. A set of 118 butterfly images, including color polyphenism from the 47 Papilionidae species that are generally preferred by humans, was selected. These images were classified using hierarchical cluster analysis based on similarities of lightness, chroma, and hue attributes in CIELAB space, determined using histogram intersection. Then, the color distributions and combinations in each cluster were analyzed using a Gaussian mixture model and the color combination types defined in the present study. Accordingly, we obtained the following main color combination rules of human‐preferred Papilionidae: (a) dominant low lightness and contrasting lightness components, (b) dominant low chroma and similar chroma components, and (c) dominant orange to yellow‐green hue and similar hue components. These rules partly agree with the robust harmony principles found in previous research. We infer that the cognitive effects concerning the processing fluency through these color combination rules influence human aesthetic responses.

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On the Portability of Computer-Generated Presentations: The Effect of Text-Background Color Combinations on Text Legibility

Abstract: Some practical rules on combining TB colors are given to enhance the legibility of presentations, especially important for the legibility of projected texts.

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

Evaluating college students’ performance of Arabic typeface style, font size, page layout and foreground/background color combinations of e-book materials

Evaluating college students’ performance of Arabic typeface style, font size, page layout and foreground/background color combinations of e-book materials

Affective Engineering of Background Colour in Digital Storytelling for Remedial Students

Computational color combination analysis of Papilionidae butterflies as aesthetic objects

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