Why does excessive negative tracking in a pharmaceutical label's font potentially lead to medication dispensing errors?

💡 Explanation

Excessive negative tracking reduces the inter-letter spacing, causing letters to merge together. This impairs the pattern recognition mechanism used by pharmacists or automated systems because tightly packed letters are harder to distinguish. Therefore, medication names become ambiguous, rather than having other visual distortions.

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