Example stimuli used to study the readability of text on texturedbackgrounds.

We used 6 background textures and three text contrast levels.

Backgrounds:

Text contrast:

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Click on the combination described below in order toview an example of that text/background combination. *Note that twoof these were considered unreadable, so they were not included in thereadability experiment, although we include them here forillustrative purposes. Each of these does have a target word insertedinto the middle paragraph of text. Some text/target word examples areidentical in target word placement for these examples. In the actualexperiment there were no trials which had identical text / targetword placements.

Unfiltered Background (All frequencies)/ Black Text

Unfiltered Background (All frequencies) /Dark Grey Text

Unfiltered Background (All frequencies)/ Medium Grey Text *

Band 1 Frequency Filtered / Black Text

Band 1 Frequency Filtered / Dark GreyText

Band 1 Frequency Filtered / Medium GreyText

Band 2 Frequency Filtered / Black Text

Band 2 Frequency Filtered / Dark GreyText

Band 2 Frequency Filtered / Medium GreyText

Band 3 Frequency Filtered / Black Text

Band 3 Frequency Filtered / Dark GreyText

Band 3 Frequency Filtered / Medium GreyText *

Band 4 Frequency Filtered / Black Text

Band 4 Frequency Filtered / Dark GreyText

Band 4 Frequency Filtered / Medium GreyText

Plain / Black Text

Plain / Dark Grey Text

Plain / Medium Grey Text