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Evaluation of Legibility for Color Texts
Soh Hirota
Tetsuya Itoh
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.1999.15.1.art00017_2  Published Online :  January 1999
Abstract

This paper describes an investigation on the legibility of color texts. We concentrate on line reproduction quality and modulation transfer function (MTF) of Y data in CIE XYZ color space of original images, and study the correlation between legibility and each of these two characteristics in order to develop an objective evaluation method. We begin by preparing samples of test targets of various colors. Then the line reproduction quality and MTF are measured and the legibility is evaluated subjectively for comparison. As a result, we have found that we can predict the legibility of color texts even on color background by the use of these two characteristics.

Journal Title : NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference
Publisher Name : Society of Imaging Science and Technology
Publisher Location : 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA
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Soh Hirota, Tetsuya Itoh, "Evaluation of Legibility for Color Texts"  in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP15),  1999,  pp 439 - 442,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.1999.15.1.art00017_2

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Evaluation of Legibility for Color Texts
HirotaSoh
ItohTetsuya
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1999
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442
1999
This paper describes an investigation on the legibility of color texts. We concentrate on line reproduction quality and modulation transfer function (MTF) of Y data in CIE XYZ color space of original images, and study the correlation between legibility and each of these two characteristics in order to develop an objective evaluation method. We begin by preparing samples of test targets of various colors. Then the line reproduction quality and MTF are measured and the legibility is evaluated subjectively for comparison. As a result, we have found that we can predict the legibility of color texts even on color background by the use of these two characteristics.