{"id":102,"date":"2008-08-06T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/06\/distorting-text-for-readability\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:50:42","slug":"distorting-text-for-readability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/06\/distorting-text-for-readability\/","title":{"rendered":"Distorting Text for Readability?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/de-war.de\/eurekacarpark.html\">This is an award winning example<\/a>.  Compared to traditional &#8220;flat&#8221; text, the distorted text is certainly striking, looks more three-dimensional, and since it&#8217;s drawn on top of objects that would normally obscure signage it&#8217;s larger.  But it can only be seen correctly from a few angles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/2008\/08\/04\/optical-illusion-improves-visibility-of-highway-markers\/\">This example from 1939 looks a little confusing<\/a> &#8212; more like a POTS sign then a STOP sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an award winning example. Compared to traditional &#8220;flat&#8221; text, the distorted text is certainly striking, looks more three-dimensional, and since it&#8217;s drawn on top of objects that would normally obscure signage it&#8217;s larger. But it can only be seen correctly from a few angles. This example from 1939 looks a little confusing &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[128,25],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-usability","tag-roads","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}