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
See also
External links
- Legibility @ Wikipedia
