Teaching Documents by Luciano Perondi
"The course was designed for first year bachelor degree students and it does not require prelimin... more "The course was designed for first year bachelor degree students and it does not require preliminary knowledge of design. The project ran for five years in three different institutions of higher education.
The parametric design of typefaces pass through the typometric analysis, mathematical study of dimensional relationships between different components of a typeface and scripting using RoboFab library (robofab.org). The aim is to raise student knowledge concerning microtypography and to define, recognize and control the typographic variables. The ambition for the project is propaedeutic to design: the student is asked for their first time to deal with the development of complex systems, with multiple and interrelated variables."
Books by Luciano Perondi
Synsemia means the deliberate and conscious disposition of elements of writing in the space in or... more Synsemia means the deliberate and conscious disposition of elements of writing in the space in order to communicate in a reasonably unambiguous way and in a regular manner, through the space articulation. These regularities can be valid only for a specific text (but coherent, rigorous and interpreted without the aid of the author), or defined by specific patterns and consolidated habits of use.
Drafts by Luciano Perondi
Studying the relationship between fonts and reading performance, including the case of Learning D... more Studying the relationship between fonts and reading performance, including the case of Learning Disabilities, we have identified the need for a font that would allow to check some of the typographical features relevant to the reading process.
The font TestMe is available in 4 versions based on the same parameters except serifs and differentiation of forms:
- TestMe Sans (sans-serif), wide spacing, long ascenders and descenders;
- TestMe Sans Alternate, with serifs only on a few letters and forms more clearly differentiated;
- TestMe Serif, with serifs on all the letters (still incomplete, missing diacritics and marks);
(- TestMe Serif Alternate, forthcoming).
Papers by Luciano Perondi
Ocula, Jun 2024
Aztec pictographic writing conveys semantic (and linguistic) contents through conventional patter... more Aztec pictographic writing conveys semantic (and linguistic) contents through conventional patterns of units. We argue that relevant visual values are ordered in subsets (topological, spatial and logical). Each unit is a “character” (in the Unicode vocabulary), either as a positive unit (a graphic sign) or as an “empty” spatial, topo-graphical relation between signs. It is sketched, then, a digital method processing sets of basic graphic features as non-linear combinations of variables; they display an overall structure similar to Unicode encoding of emoji. Finally, more coded variables are set to account for broader compositions, since coding systems available so far are not flexible enough to accommodate the encoding of Aztec units.
Vicerrectorado de Docencia. Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna eBooks, 2020
The Topography of Dante's Inferno" is a synsemic interactive artifact which is designed for 11-14... more The Topography of Dante's Inferno" is a synsemic interactive artifact which is designed for 11-14 years old students. The design process has been based on the fundamental concepts of synsemia, which lead to an artifact that includes and combines different didactic mediators; in particular, in this article is described more in detail the fundamental concept of reference frame. The reference frame can be described as the frame (consisting of graphic elements) which allows to contextualize the graphic elements of a synsemic text. The artifact has been qualitatively evaluated in two focus groups (one with 12 teachers in training and one with 12 teachers in service), in which some reflections emerged, like some misinterpretations due to a more or less correct design of the reference frame and the didactic mediators.
Advances in intelligent systems and computing, 2019
In this article we hypothesize that, in an interactive system for the representation of the knowl... more In this article we hypothesize that, in an interactive system for the representation of the knowledge related to a work of art, it is possible to detect a relation between visual coherence (in particular, the coherence of the number of constituent traits in graphical elements) and epistemic coherence (in particular, the coherence of the forms of knowledge), and that this relation affects the readability and the understanding of specific contents of the work of art. This article describes an experimental design which is conceived for verifying the validity of the research hypothesis. The planned research allows to describe a valid criterion for the development of a system of signs and contents related to a work of art.
Vicerrectorado de Docencia. Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna eBooks, 2020
This paper discusses a theoretical framework for a research aimed to produce a dictionary of visu... more This paper discusses a theoretical framework for a research aimed to produce a dictionary of visual analogies used for the explanation of scientific theories, collected both from historical and contemporary sources. The artifacts will be indexed through a set of criteria and tags that will allow to navigate the contents and map correlations across time, scientific domains and types of publication. The archive will grow as an open-ended accumulation of examples, adapting the methodology for the selection and organisation of the analogies based on the new entries. A set of visualisations will be used in order to navigate the archive and make emerging patterns legible. The initial method of classification will be based on the faceted system envisioned by Luca Rosati (Rosati, 2015), in which artifacts are tagged and tags are organised according to a faceted classification. Tags will not be mutually exclusive, but they'll act like attributes: each entry may have multiple tags, the number of which can grow without any limit or predetermined direction.
Proceedings, Nov 29, 2017
The project "topography of Dante's inferno" is an experiment on alternative mode of access to a c... more The project "topography of Dante's inferno" is an experiment on alternative mode of access to a complex text relying on an evident topographical structure. The artifact (a website) is designed with the aim of introducing young students (11-14 years old) to a text usually read and studied by older students (16-19 years old). The design of the artifact was based on the theories of Sinsemía applied to interaction design, and the testing focused on (1) usability and (2) on the understanding of the topography of the poem as a precondition for understanding the text.
Inmaterial, Dec 20, 2019
In this paper we discuss the theoretical linguistic and graphic preconditions of the design of PA... more In this paper we discuss the theoretical linguistic and graphic preconditions of the design of PASS, a glyph system which we designed for use in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) habilitative practices that has been released under open source licence.
Annals of Dyslexia, Mar 14, 2020
Over the last years, several studies have suggested a possible link between dyslexia and deficits... more Over the last years, several studies have suggested a possible link between dyslexia and deficits in low-level visual processing (e.g., excessive crowding). At the same time, specially designed "dyslexia-friendly" fonts appeared on the market. This class of fonts presents two main features: the particular graphic characteristics of the letterform designed to avoid confusion between similarly shaped letters, and wider inter-letter and inter-word spacing to limit crowding. The literature testing the efficacy of "dyslexiafriendly" fonts in improving reading accuracy and increasing reading speed is controversial. We evaluated the impact of letterform (with vs. without dyslexia-friendly graphic features), inter-letter spacing (standard vs. increased), and inter-word spacing (standard vs. increased) on reading accuracy and speed. Two groups of 64 children each, with and without dyslexia, read aloud 8 equivalent texts. The data collected failed to show any effect from the letterform. As regards spacing, the data showed that reading speed is impaired by an increase in inter-letter spacing not combined with an adequate increase in inter-word spacing.
Alle vittime del culto dell'artista : per un nuovo artigianato, 2017
2CO Communicating Complexity. Contributions from the 2017 Tenerife Conference, 2020
This paper discusses a theoretical framework for a research aimed to produce a dictionary of visu... more This paper discusses a theoretical framework for a research aimed to produce a dictionary of visual analogies used for the explanation of scientific theories, collected both from historical and contemporary sources. The artifacts will be indexed through a set of criteria and tags that will allow to navigate the contents and map correlations across time, scientific domains and types of publication. The archive will grow as an open-ended accumulation of examples, adapting the methodology for the selection and organisation of the analogies based on the new entries. A set of visualisations will be used in order to navigate the archive and make emerging patterns legible. The initial method of classification will be based on the faceted system envisioned by Luca Rosati (Rosati, 2015), in which artifacts are tagged and tags are organised according to a faceted classification. Tags will not be mutually exclusive, but they'll act like attributes: each entry may have multiple tags, the number of which can grow without any limit or predetermined direction.
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Teaching Documents by Luciano Perondi
The parametric design of typefaces pass through the typometric analysis, mathematical study of dimensional relationships between different components of a typeface and scripting using RoboFab library (robofab.org). The aim is to raise student knowledge concerning microtypography and to define, recognize and control the typographic variables. The ambition for the project is propaedeutic to design: the student is asked for their first time to deal with the development of complex systems, with multiple and interrelated variables."
Books by Luciano Perondi
Drafts by Luciano Perondi
The font TestMe is available in 4 versions based on the same parameters except serifs and differentiation of forms:
- TestMe Sans (sans-serif), wide spacing, long ascenders and descenders;
- TestMe Sans Alternate, with serifs only on a few letters and forms more clearly differentiated;
- TestMe Serif, with serifs on all the letters (still incomplete, missing diacritics and marks);
(- TestMe Serif Alternate, forthcoming).
Papers by Luciano Perondi
The parametric design of typefaces pass through the typometric analysis, mathematical study of dimensional relationships between different components of a typeface and scripting using RoboFab library (robofab.org). The aim is to raise student knowledge concerning microtypography and to define, recognize and control the typographic variables. The ambition for the project is propaedeutic to design: the student is asked for their first time to deal with the development of complex systems, with multiple and interrelated variables."
The font TestMe is available in 4 versions based on the same parameters except serifs and differentiation of forms:
- TestMe Sans (sans-serif), wide spacing, long ascenders and descenders;
- TestMe Sans Alternate, with serifs only on a few letters and forms more clearly differentiated;
- TestMe Serif, with serifs on all the letters (still incomplete, missing diacritics and marks);
(- TestMe Serif Alternate, forthcoming).