ABSTRACT
Legibility: The Psychomotor Domain Although Pyke lists instances of 18th-and early 19th-eentury work (e.g., by Babbage in 1827), Javal (1879) is generally credited as the first to apply the scientific method to typography; and a considerable number of studies of"reading hygiene," as the field was then called, were published in the first half of this century. The typographie variables listed by Legros (1922) typify the scope of mueh of the legibility research that still appears from time to time today: All the figures used in this chapter are excerpted from The Handbook of Sailing hy Bob Bond. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1980. Reprinted by permission.
