Effect of Column Width and Line Spacing on reading time in Hindi

The objective of this study was to establish differences in reading time due to typographical factors like column width and line spacing. The conclusion could lead to useful design recommendations for text formats and layouts for the improvement of reading print text in the Hindi language which uses the Devanagari script. Extensive research has been conducted in the domain of typography of the English language which uses the Latin script, and as a result, various guidelines have been proposed to be followed while typesetting text to maximize its readability. As the Devanagari script differs from the Latin script in a variety of ways, these guidelines cannot be simply applied to it. The current study consisted of two experiments — one for testing the effect of column width on reading speed and the other for testing the effect of line spacing. The reading times of 26 people (who had studied Hindi writing, reading, and speaking in school) assigned randomly to the different text layouts were compared. <a href="https://medium.com/@ms.samadrita/effect-of-column-width-and-line-spacing-on-reading-time-in-hindi-c26fd4914379">Read More</a>