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== See also == | == See also == | ||
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* [[Legibility]] | * [[Legibility]] | ||
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* [[Source code]] | * [[Source code]] | ||
* [[Syntax highlighting]] | * [[Syntax highlighting]] | ||
* [[Text]] | * [[Text]] | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability Readability] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability Readability] @ Wikipedia | ||
Revision as of 09:56, 9 February 2016
Readability is the ease with which a written text can be understood by a reader.
Description
The readability of a particular text depends:
- Content (for example, the complexity of its vocabulary and syntax)
- Typography (for example, its font size, line height, and line length)
Various factors to measure readability have been used, such as "speed of perception," "perceptibility at a distance," "perceptibility in peripheral vision," "visibility," "the reflex blink technique," "rate of work" (e.g., speed of reading), "eye movements," and "fatigue in reading."
Legibility
Readability is distinguished from legibility, which is a measure of how easily individual letters or characters can be distinguished from each other.
Source code
Readability can determine the ease with which source code can be read by humans, using techniques such as:
- Whitespace (consistent meaningful indentation and line spacing)
- Comments (human readable text within the source code, for explanation and documentation)
See also Syntax highlighting.
See also
External links
- Readability @ Wikipedia
