Readability

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

• Column (typography)
• Legibility
• Page layout
• Source code
• Syntax highlighting
• Text
• Typography

External links

• Readability @ Wikipedia