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2. Typography

The typography topics in the RGD Accessibility PDFOpens in a new window include the following:

  • Typographic accessibility
  • Typeface selection
  • Typesetting

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Typographic accessibility

This section covers vital typographic considerations, including:

  • Letters, letterforms, and legibility
  • Reading and readability
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Typeface selection

Typeface selection covers considerations that impact people with vision or reading difficulties, including typographic:

  • Style
  • Stance
  • Width
  • Character width variation
  • Stroke contrast
  • Weight
  • Counter forms
  • Apertures
  • X-height
  • And more
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Typesetting

Typesetting expands on typeface selection to cover ways that designers can manipulate type, including:

  • Size
  • Character spacing
  • Line, paragraph, and column spacing
  • Line length and columns
  • Text alignment
  • And more
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