RE: Online & Offline Doc Help

["Technical Writing Plus" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Here is a site of an expert and this site may have some useful information
for you. Specifically, his Academic work page links to an article that he
wrote that has to do with the legibility of serif/sans serif typeface. 

http://www.alexpoole.info/index.html

Disclaimer: I have not read the article and I do not know what his
conclusions are, and so of course I do not know how he arrived at his
conclusions. Nor do I know the quality of the paper and how it is ranked. 

Jim Jones

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-----Original Message-----
...Jacob Nielsen's website on usability:
http://www.useit.com/

The Technical Writing EServer library (Tons of research, but good navigation
for finding things):
http://tc.eserver.org/

--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Joe Sokohl <jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com> wrote:

...sent me this query:
> 
> "I have been tasked to take a look at our
> documentation both printed and electronic and refresh the look and feel
while remaining inside  the guidelines of our brand. Do you have any data or
know > where I can  find data that focuses on readability? Ex. Sans serif
vs. serif, multi  column vs. single column, color choices, etc. I have spent
> some time  doing some online research but have had minimal success. If
> you have  any data or could recommend a place online for me to search
> I would be grateful."
> 
> Naturally, I gave him the "it depends" and  "hire a tech writer" stuff.  
> Can y'all help point me to some current sources? I've sent him  
> thecontentwrangler.com, uxmatters.com (thanks, Mike Hughes), and  
> writersua.com. Also, "Standards of Online  Communication" and "Letting  
> Go of the Words." Any online stuff specifically would be great...
 
> Joe Sokohl
> joe -at- sokohl -dot- com
> www.sokohl.com/
> IM: joe -at- sokohl -dot- com (MSM)

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