Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes

Re:Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes by ars on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:47PM (#2901477)

Maybe I'm strange but I found the sharp corners much easier to see.

The round ones were distracting, especially the rounded arrows. I also found the pointy circle much nicer to look at.

With sharp corners you have 4 things to look at and process - each line. With the rounded ones you have 4 lines, 8 spots where a line changes into a curve, and 4 curves.

At least that's how my eyes do it - they notice the curve for each corner and that wastes time.

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Re:Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes by mrb on Thursday August 18, 2011 @11:49PM (#2902149)

I tend to agree. I dislike many uses of rounded corners.

I also find it ironic that in the example diagram they use to compare squared vs. rounded corners, they use squared corners on the A, B, and C boxes, implicitly acknowledging that they are more appropriate than rounded corners in this case.

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Re:Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes by pyre on Thursday August 18, 2011 @08:45PM (#2901757)

Shouldn't that be:

  4 lines and 4 corners

  4 lines, 8 spots where line changes to curve and 4 curves

If you have to process the fact that a line changes into a curve, then why don't you have to process that two lines are intersecting, or 'changing' at a 90deg angle?

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Re:Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes by ars on Friday August 19, 2011 @07:51AM (#2903018)

I thought about that and mathematically it makes sense, but that's just not how I experience it. The corner is "simple" there is nothing there for me to process, so I don't need to notice it.

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