Example Stimuli: Transparent Text on Textured Background

Example stimuli used to study the readability of transparent text on textured backgrounds.

We used 3 background textures, 2 types of transparency, and 2 text contrast levels.

Backgrounds:

periodic texture: "culture pattern"
periodic texture: "wave pattern"
a plain "texture" of equal luminance

Transparency Type:

Additive (text lighter than background)
Multiplicative (text darker than background)

Text contrast:

dark grey text (35% contrast)
medium grey text (15% contrast)

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Click on the combination described below in order to view an example of that text/background combination. Each of these does have a target word inserted into the middle paragraph of text. Some text/target word examples are identical in target word placement for these examples. In the actual experiment there were no trials which had identical text / target word placements.

The images will display correctly if the screen gamma is 1.262 and the minimum contrast on the screen is 3.65%.

Additive Transparency Examples:

Culture Pattern, 30 % contrast
Culture Pattern, 45 % contrast
Wave Pattern, 30 % contrast
Wave Pattern, 45 % contrast
Plain Pattern, 30 % contrast
Plain Pattern, 45 % contrast

Multiplicative Transparency Examples:

Culture Pattern, 30 % contrast
Culture Pattern, 45 % contrast
Wave Pattern, 30 % contrast
Wave Pattern, 45 % contrast
Plain Pattern, 30 % contrast
Plain Pattern, 45 % contrast