Dec. 3, 2009
8:36 a.m.
On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
What is the point of a font so small that I can hardly read it?
Or is it just me and I need new glasses?
Maybe ;-) No, the idea was that for a visualisation, showing e.g. class names, having a font like that should be enough to know what class you look at... or as a label, to help those people who just cant remember which color has which of 5 different meanings. Microprint show information even though you can't read anything: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Robb05b-microprintsESUG.pdf So readability is not always needed to convey information contained in text. Marcus