DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PHYSICAL TEMPLATE MATCHING AND SUBJECTIVE SIMILARITY ESTIMATES OF JAPANESE LETTERS
Peter Dunn‐Rankin, Donald A. Leton · Japanese Psychological Research · 1973
An analysis of the similarity of characters in a new Japanese type font: Typos 35 was determined by template matching. A measure of the area that pairs of characters have in common was used as an index of similarity. An empirical study was also performed in which a free clustering of the same Japanese letters was performed by adult non-readers of Japanese. A comparison between the results of these two experiments is presented. The comparison indicates a general similarity of dimensional structures for the characters under both measurement techniques. Specific differences, however, suggest a global and specificfeature theory of letter similarity determined in a two stage process.