On 6 March 2014 20:21, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Ryan, *thank you* very much for the research, and for contacting the Liberation Sans maintainers with specific bugs.
Seconded! Arguing is one thing - bothering to go out and finding out what people actually think is quite another.
Would it be possible to run a test like this - for the squishy subjective feelings that, nevertheless, are the results we actually want to achieve - with a reasonable sample of ordinary users? I'm surprised you got results like this from designers (who probably *knew* what fonts they were looking at), but tests on normal people would also be good. This would be *really good* usability data, highly suitable to defend a decision from design obsessives, unreconstructed Stallmanites or anyone between ...
(Veering off topic: So what does WMF use for a usability lab, anyway?)
- d.