Biography
Biography: Ching Y Suen
Abstract
Thousands of years ago, humans started to create symbols to represent things they saw, heard, touched, found, remembered, imagined, and talked about. We can see them carved on rocks, walls, shells, and other materials. From these symbols, words and different languages were invented, modified, expanded, and evolved over the years. Following the invention of paper and writing instruments, different ways of representing the same symbol started to appear, forming the basis of different stylistic variations and font types.As time went by, computers and digital technology emerged with which the alphabets of all languages in the world can be printed digitally. Once a symbol has been represented in a digital format, there are infinite ways of representing it in unlimited type fonts for publishing. This talk summarizes the evolution of fonts, their characteristics and their personality traits. Aspects such as font styles and their effects on reading and eyesight, legibility and comprehension, will be discussed with experimental results.