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ISSN : 1229-6783(Print)
ISSN : 2288-1484(Online)
Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science Vol.17 No.2 pp.153-160
DOI : https://doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2015.17.2.153

Legibility Evaluation of Words Used in Pesticide Products According to Age in Same Near Visual Acuity

Hae Young Hwang*,Young Woong Song**
*Department of Visual Optics, Kyungwoon University
**Department of Occupational Health, Catholic University of Daegu
†Corresponding Author : Young Woong Song, E-mail : songyw@cu.ac.kr
April 19, 2014 April 19, 2015 June 05, 2015.

Abstract

This study tried to investigate the difference of the legibility in different age groups (young and old) with same near visual acuity and to provide preliminary guidelines for the text sizes in the pesticides products based on the legibility experiments. To achieve the objective, legibility evaluation experiments were conducted to test the effects of different age(20s, 50-60s), gender, font type(thick gothic-type and fine gothic-type), thickness (plain and bold), and number of syllables(2 and 3 syllables) in the same near visual acuity(0.6). The results showed that legibility 50s was higher than 20s. And 20s are appealed higher discomfort than 50s. Considering these experimental results, it was recommended that the 14 pt or larger characters (100% readable size) should be used the important information such as toxicity, and the minimum character size was 7 pt (50% readable size) for other information.
pesticides products label, legibility evaluation, reading discomfort, minimum character size

근거리 동일 시력에서 연령에 따른 농약 제품 표시 글자의 가독성 평가

황해영*,송영웅**
*경운대학교 안경광학과
**대구가톨릭대학교 산업보건학과

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