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Typeface Statistics

Statistics on which typefaces are easiest or hardest to identify and which pairs of typefaces are easiest or hardest to distinguish. Click on an individual typeface or typeface pair to get more detail.

Easiest Typefaces to Identify

typeface	right	total	bayesian
Didot	95.5%	925,814	94.1%
Georgia	96.4%	295,257	93.3%
Courier New	96.6%	242,442	93.1%
Skia	95.1%	230,619	92.6%
Optima	93%	1,127,819	92.5%

Hardest Typefaces to Identify

typeface	right	total	bayesian
Verdana	83.9%	1,046,178	86.4%
Helvetica Neue	85.4%	1,171,289	87.2%
Gill Sans	87.2%	614,558	89.1%
Arial	86.6%	428,033	89.3%
Trebuchet MS	86.6%	380,805	89.4%

Easiest Pairs of Typefaces to Distinguish

typeface pair	right	total	bayesian
Futura vs Times New Roman	98.5%	95,428	97.2%
Didot vs Futura	98.2%	94,667	96.9%
Didot vs Gill Sans	99%	56,373	96.9%
Baskerville vs Futura	99.4%	43,605	96.7%
Futura vs Garamond	98.2%	78,157	96.7%

Hardest Pairs of Typefaces to Distinguish

typeface pair	right	total	bayesian
Helvetica Neue vs Verdana	57.4%	152,709	62.1%
Arial vs Helvetica Neue	54%	30,678	70.7%
Arial vs Verdana	59.4%	30,700	73.7%
Baskerville vs Times New Roman	65.1%	43,095	74.7%
Gill Sans vs Verdana	69%	55,757	75.9%