Cognitive Research
Focuses on the mental processes involved in language comprehension, typography perception, and writing systems. It investigates how design choices affect readability, understanding, and cognitive load in different reading environments.
Optimising Braille Character Spacing for Enhanced Tactile Reading
Exploring the complexities of tactile legibility and optimal spacing for enhanced reading experiences. Through research and collaboration with international organisations, Zed Braille emerges as a finely tuned typeface, bridging diverse user needs and international standards.
Designing fonts with low-vision readers in mind: A reading acuity experiment
A lab-based experiment developed to empirically improve and test the distance-reading legibility of new typeface, tested on visually impaired readers.
Handwriting Database, 566 samples of contemporary Latin writing
This is a database that captures the writing of over half a thousand contemporary users of the Latin script, across 46 countries and 20 languages.
The Familiarity Effect in the Perception of Handwriting
Do we prefer our own handwriting? We conducted a large scale empirical study on how familiarity affects the perception of handwritten text, measuring implicit biases that show people favour text resembling their own style.