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My dad's old prescription bottle taught me more about readability than any design blog ever did
Last week I was helping my 70 year old uncle read the tiny gray text on his blood pressure meds and I literally could not see it myself without squinting. Then I grabbed my dad's old bottle from a pharmacy in Phoenix and the black text on white background with actual bold type was so easy to read I felt dumb for never noticing. How do y'all handle situations where government or medical designs clearly weren't tested on anyone over 50?
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emma_young15d ago
Haven't you ever considered that smaller type allows people to fit more important safety info on the label?
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sam_harris6815d agoTop Commenter
Huh, you know what, I used to be totally against small type on labels. I always thought it was just companies being cheap or trying to hide stuff. But when you put it that way about fitting more safety info, that actually makes a lot of sense to me now. I mean, I've definitely been annoyed trying to read tiny warnings before, but I guess having the info there at all is better than not having it. So yeah, maybe I was wrong about that one.
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