The Cognitive Type Project -- Mapping Typography to Cognition
This work addresses the problem of labor-intensive typeface design for typographers and cognitive researchers, enabling more efficient creation of fonts with tailored cognitive effects, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing cognitive science insights.
The Cognitive Type Project tackled the challenge of mapping typography to cognition by developing computational tools to design typefaces with varying cognitive properties, aiming to enhance applications like online ad click-through rates and reading levels in children's books.
The Cognitive Type Project is focused on developing computational tools to enable the design of typefaces with varying cognitive properties. This initiative aims to empower typographers to craft fonts that enhance click-through rates for online ads, improve reading levels in children's books, enable dyslexics to create personalized type, or provide insights into customer reactions to textual content in media. A significant challenge in research related to mapping typography to cognition is the creation of thousands of typefaces with minor variations, a process that is both labor-intensive and requires the expertise of skilled typographers. Cognitive science research highlights that the design and form of letters, along with the text's overall layout, are crucial in determining the ease of reading and other cognitive properties of type such as perceived beauty and memorability. These factors affect not only the legibility and clarity of information presentation but also the likability of a typeface.