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Conducive Reading Environments Describe your ideal reading environment Explain your reasoning

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ConduciveReadingEnvironments

•  Describeyouridealreadingenvironment

•  Explainyourreasoning

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LoweringVisualNoise

•  Usealimitedcolourpale:e,Use2‐3colourstocontrastwithfullcolourvisuals.

•  Avoidbrightbackgroundscolourswithsimilarcolourtonedtype.

•  Limituseoftypefaces,i.e.2/3maximum.

•  Don’tusebrightcolouredtypeforbodycopy.Useblack,grey,darkcolours.

•  Don’tuseoverdecoraKvefaces.

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‐Avoidlonglinelengths.Nomorethan12wordsonaline.‐Use‘serif’fonts(Georgia,Times,Baskerville)forparagraphsoftextmorethan150words.Itiseasiertoread.

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