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TRIS Online Accession Number:1492605
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Abstract:Fonts are a central design element of any interface that displays text. In safety critical applications such as driving an automobile, the wide universe of typographic design decisions may affect basic readability and the ability to quickly target and identify information of interest. This is critical to reducing workload and preventing distraction. While the link between font design and auto safety seems obvious to typographers, it has received minimal attention from automotive manufacturers and HMI designers. Based on our conversations with font experts, it appears that the fonts commonly used in vehicle interfaces may not be optimal. Vehicle interface designers frequently prioritize brand requirements over legibility when selecting a typeface. The optimization of visual information across all aspects of the vehicle interior, e.g., instrument cluster, telematics displays, heads-up displays, etc., might reasonably be expected to reduce demand on the operator and free-up resources for the primary operation of the vehicle.
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