Penny Barker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Penny Barker is involved.

Article

Barker, Penny, Max Hailstone and Murray Simmonds 1986 An experimental study of some effects of figure-ground contrast on the use of street maps Information Design Journal 4:3, pp. 212–220 | Article

Nine different formats of a street map were designed to test effects of contrast between city blocks, streets and street names. The position of the streets and their names remained constant. The contrast between city blocks, streets and names was varied by using combinations of black, white and… read more