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CYRIN

CYRIN In The Browser

In order to rate the readability of text on a web page, Can You Read It Now has to do all of the following: Get access to the page contents Find the text to be analyzed Get the displayed style of each piece of text Calculate ratings for each aspect

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Kevin Gorski Dec 16, 2012 • 2 min read
CYRIN

CYRIN Metrics Part 2

Continuing our exploration of typographic terminology used by CYRIN and how its scores are calculated: Justification Left-justified text is most natural to read for most text. The justification of text describes how it will be aligned to the edges of your page, which in turn will determine how words will

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Kevin Gorski Nov 18, 2012 • 2 min read
CYRIN

CYRIN Metrics Part 1

Typography has a rich history of wide, specific and sometimes confusing terminology. Today I’m going to focus on terms related to readability that are important to understanding why CYRIN recommends what it does, so we can get by with a much smaller set. Font Size A good default font

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Kevin Gorski Nov 3, 2012 • 2 min read
CYRIN

Typography & Can You Read It Now?

Typography can be a subtle art. Type is in front of us all day in one form or another, but it can take extreme examples of high- or low-quality typography to spur us to think about type. Like most arts, the more you think about it, the more you notice

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Kevin Gorski Nov 3, 2012 • 3 min read
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