Readability

Readability is the ease with which a written text can be understood by a reader.

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."

Readability is distinguished from legibility, which is a measure of how easily individual letters or characters can be distinguished from each other.

Readability can determine the ease with which computer program code can be read by humans, such as through embedded documentation.

See also

• Legibility

External links

• Readability @ Wikipedia