The book is a collection of invited chapters by renowned experts and is part of a series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems.

Contents; Introduction to the series; Preface; List of contributors; Section 1: Vision and reading; Chapter 1: The effect of type design and typesetting on visually impaired readers; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Previous research on the topic; 1.2.1 Type size; 1.2.2 Leading and spacing; 1.2.3 Serif and sans serif; 1.2.4 Other typographic details; 1.3 Testing each parameter; 1.3.1 Testing method and possible risks to consider; 1.3.2 Selection of participants; 1.3.3 Tested aspects and selection of typefaces; 1.4 Results and discussion; 1.4.1 Type size. 1.4.2 Visual noise and type size: a complementary study1.4.3 Leading and spacing; 1.4.4 Serif and sans serif; 1.4.5 Other typographic details; 1.5 Towards a pattern identification; 1.5.1 Common mistakes found; 1.5.2 Eye filtering mechanism and the Fourier Method: a complementary study; 1.5.2.1 Testing method and possible risks to consider; 1.5.2.2 Analyzing the material; 1.5.2.3 The outcomes; 1.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: Matilda: a typeface for children with low vision; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Typographic research and legibility research; 1.3 The term legibility. 1.4 Design methodology applied1.5 Quantitative and qualitative legibility research; 1.6 Results; 1.7 Matilda; 1.8 Conclusion; References; Section 2: Scientific approaches to reading; Chapter 3: Sitka: a collaboration between type design and science; 1.1 The design brief; 1.2 The design process; 1.3 It's not possible to test everything; 1.4 A large x-height comes with a cost; 1.5 A large x-height harms Greek letters; 1.6 The entire alphabet should be made of the letter m; 1.7 It's harder to recognize a letter when next to other letters. 1.8 The large size-specific designs are optimized for elegance (The Berlow-Hudson Hypothesis)1.9 A typeface is a beautiful collection of letters, not a collection of beautiful letters; 1.10 There can be considerations other than test results; 1.11 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4: Eye movements: from psycholinguistics to font design; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Characteristics of reading eye movements; 1.3 Eye movement measures of processing; 1.4 Gaze-contingent eye movement methods; 1.4.1 Moving window; 1.4.2 Boundary change; 1.4.3 Disappearing text. 1.5 Eye movement studies of typography1.6 Fonts; 1.6.1 Serif vs. sans serif; 1.6.2 Inter-letter and inter-word spacing; 1.7 Concluding remarks; References; Chapter 5: Designing legible fonts for distance reading; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Disappearing details; 1.3 Open inner counters; 1.3.1 The x-height; 1.3.2 Letter width; 1.4 Letter weight; 1.5 Inter-letter spacing; 1.6 Summary and conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Effects of interword spacing on Chinese children's reading abilities; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Background to the study; 1.2.1 Interword spacing and the reading of Chinese text. 1.2.2 Theory related to reading.