Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Human Factors and Behavioral Neurobiology
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
1-2009
Abstract/Description
This article describes the application of sunflower plots and classification trees to the study of onscreen typeface legibility. The two methods are useful for describing high-dimensional data in an intuitive manner, which is crucial for interacting with both the typographers who design the typefaces and the practitioners who must make decisions about which typeface to use for specific applications. Furthermore, classification trees help us make specific recommendations for how much of a character attribute is “enough” to make it legible. We present examples of sunflower plots and classification trees using data from a recent typeface legibility experiment, and we present R code for replicating our analyses. Some familiarity with classification trees and logistic regression will be helpful to the reader.
Publication Title
Case Studies in Business, Industry, & Government Statistics
Publisher
Bentley University
Scholarly Commons Citation
Merkle, E. C., & Chaparro, B. S. (2009). Using Sunflower Plots and Classification Trees to Study Typeface Legibility. Case Studies in Business, Industry, & Government Statistics, 2(2). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/966
Additional Information
Dr. Chaparro was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this article was published.