Revision history for ReadingTheWhiteSpace
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===[[http://digitalhumanities.org:3030/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405148641/9781405148641.xml&chunk.id=ss1-5-4&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ss1-5-4&brand=9781405148641_brand||Reading on Screen by Vandendorpe]]===
"...margins are not just lost space. They give shape to the text and allow the eye to regenerate from the tension produced by the innumerable saccadic movements of the eye during the reading process. With the disappearance of margins, text is reduced to its content. "
"...margins are not just lost space. They give shape to the text and allow the eye to regenerate from the tension produced by the innumerable saccadic movements of the eye during the reading process. With the disappearance of margins, text is reduced to its content. "
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===[[http://tidbits.com/article/17850|| Better Than the Printed Page by Charles Maurer]]===
- Mauer, whose wife is a visual scientist, states that our brains, from infancy, find it easier to comprehend material that is black on white or dark on light and not the other way around.
====Overall Observations/Comments====
*I've noticed a huge trend toward chalkboards recently (past couple of years). People hang chalk boards as art, you can buy chalk boards already chalked up permanently and sold as wall art, People have them in their kitchens as menu boards, Pintrest shows you how you can paint your cabinets with chalkboard paint to dual as a menu or message board. Many containers are sold with a chalkboard label, and a couple of years ago, my son and I made necklaces with miniature chalkboards on them as teacher appreciation gifts. They were cute. The chalkboard was round like a locket, but you could write a small message on it (I heart math, etc...). Anyway.... I digress... What I am getting at is that chalkboards are white on dark. Mauer says our brains are built to prefer dark on light, so this trend is bucking the system. One reason for the trend, I believe, is the nostalgia of the old chalkboard, but it is also interesting to think that back in the day, students learned by reading light on dark with the old school house slates.
Do we see light on dark anywhere else?
- Mauer, whose wife is a visual scientist, states that our brains, from infancy, find it easier to comprehend material that is black on white or dark on light and not the other way around.
====Overall Observations/Comments====
*I've noticed a huge trend toward chalkboards recently (past couple of years). People hang chalk boards as art, you can buy chalk boards already chalked up permanently and sold as wall art, People have them in their kitchens as menu boards, Pintrest shows you how you can paint your cabinets with chalkboard paint to dual as a menu or message board. Many containers are sold with a chalkboard label, and a couple of years ago, my son and I made necklaces with miniature chalkboards on them as teacher appreciation gifts. They were cute. The chalkboard was round like a locket, but you could write a small message on it (I heart math, etc...). Anyway.... I digress... What I am getting at is that chalkboards are white on dark. Mauer says our brains are built to prefer dark on light, so this trend is bucking the system. One reason for the trend, I believe, is the nostalgia of the old chalkboard, but it is also interesting to think that back in the day, students learned by reading light on dark with the old school house slates.
Do we see light on dark anywhere else?
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@@====Reading the White Space ====@@
"[[http://luckysoap.com/andbyislands/|and by Islands I mean Paragraphs" by J.R. Carpenter]] and [[http://www.yhchang.com/DAKOTA_V.html|DAKOTA by Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries]]
=====More Discussion about Reading the White Space=====
===Diagrammatic Writing by Drucker===
- On page 10, a mostly white page with the exception of this small piece of text attached at the bottom, Drucker writes,
"(The nothing that is here produces a certain anxiety, questions about what could,
should, might be present. Expectations abound. We are caught up short by the blank
space, or would have been, more so, without this aside.)"
"[[http://luckysoap.com/andbyislands/|and by Islands I mean Paragraphs" by J.R. Carpenter]] and [[http://www.yhchang.com/DAKOTA_V.html|DAKOTA by Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries]]
=====More Discussion about Reading the White Space=====
===Diagrammatic Writing by Drucker===
- On page 10, a mostly white page with the exception of this small piece of text attached at the bottom, Drucker writes,
"(The nothing that is here produces a certain anxiety, questions about what could,
should, might be present. Expectations abound. We are caught up short by the blank
space, or would have been, more so, without this aside.)"
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===Chapter 2 "Reading" by Marshall===
- On page 32 - "the optimal use of white space affected both reading speed and text comprehension"
- On page 32 - "the optimal use of white space affected both reading speed and text comprehension"
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====Reading the White Space in "[[http://luckysoap.com/andbyislands/|and by Islands I mean Paragraphs" by J.R. Carpenter]] and [[http://www.yhchang.com/DAKOTA_V.html|DAKOTA by Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries]]====
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