RE: Justified versus ragged right?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Is there an online link to Schriver's research?

(Yes, Geoff was in the WSE back in 2005. To arms! To brews!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Hart
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:37 PM
> To: techwr-l List; Sean Brierley
> Subject: Justified versus ragged right?
> 
> Karen Schriver's "Dynamics in document design" (1997) is 
> getting a bit old, but it's still just about the best overall 
> discussion of typography -- based on real research -- out there.
> 
> Bottom line: With competently typeset text, it doesn't make 
> any significant difference whether you use ragged right or 
> full justification. Both produce equally legible and equally 
> readable type. Most typographic studies I've seen that claim 
> an advantage for some form of fontography end up comparing a 
> badly chosen and poorly typeset font with a well chosen and 
> well-typeset font. As you can imagine, the comparison doesn't 
> hold much water.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Goldstein 
> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:37 PM
> > To: 'TECHWR-L'
> > Subject: RE: Justified versus ragged right
> > 
> > TECHWR-L had lively discussions of this subject in December 
> > 2004 and April 2005.
> > 
> > The Loyal Knights of Ragged cited readability studies by 
> > Misanchuk, Hartley and Burnhill, and Coe.
> > 
> > The Worthy Society of Empiricists refused to give ground, and 
> > in the end both sides retired from the field of battle for a 
> > nice few brews.
> > 

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