Hilary Palmén
How people read fundamentally impacts how effectively engage with the world. As researcher for Google Fonts I help us curate a library of fonts that will optimize reading across all languages supported by unicode. building a deep understanding of what influences readability. My research covers reading fluency, meaningful engagement with longer texts, and the expressive properties of Type design. Variable Fonts are bringing the power of digital Typography to researchers, interaction designers and readers. They are revolutionary in how they step away from replicating mechanical type.
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Material Design provides an open source library of over 3,000 icons for both digital and print use by anyone, anywhere in the world. The library includes icons for user interface (UI) interactions and icons for visuals. While these icons are available globally and do include international symbols, such as different currency icons, our understanding of how the icons are interpreted by a global audience from different regions and cultures is limited. We are developing a research approach that evaluates classes of icons at scale to understand how design teams can ensure their iconography is legible to end users. Our aim is to provide design guidance for selecting icons from the Material Design library for international end-users and target interventions to help end-users develop familiarity with icons.
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