Legibility

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Legibility is the ease with which a reader can recognize individual characters in text.

Description

"The legibility of a typeface is related to the characteristics inherent in its design … which relate to the ability to distinguish one letter from the other."

Aspects of type design that affect legibility include:

  • X-height
  • Character shapes
  • Stroke contrast
  • Size of its counters, serifs or lack thereof
  • Weight

Readability

Legibility is different from, but related to, readability.

Readability is the ease with which a reader can recognize words, sentences, and paragraphs.

Typographic factors

Other typographic factors that affect readability include:

  • Font choice
  • Point size
  • Kerning
  • Tracking
  • Line length
  • Leading
  • Justification

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