Re: Which direction should text be rotated in figures?

Subject: Re: Which direction should text be rotated in figures?
From: jimmy -at- breck-mckye -dot- com
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:12:27 +0100

According to a paper from the University of Toronto (http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ravin/papers/ecscw2005_textorientation.pdf), the readability difference is slight, though shows a slight bias towards clockwise rotation.

On 2013-04-08 11:48, Debbie Hemstreet wrote:

Hi All,

I have an graphic, in English. Some of the text is rotated so that I
look to the left to read it, some is rotated so I look to the right to
read it.

Which way should rotated text face, in English in pictures? I can't
remember and I think Hebrew has infected my brain...

Thanks!

Deborah




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