Legibility
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Legibility is the ease with which a reader can recognize individual characters in text. "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, the size of its counters, serifs or lack thereof, and weight."[1]
Legibility is different from readability. Readability is the ease with which a reader can recognize words, sentences, and paragraphs. Legibility is a component of readability. Other typographic factors that affect readability include font choice, point size, kerning, tracking, line length, leading, and justification.
See also
- Measure (typography)
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
- Despeckle
- RKM code for a scheme optimized for legibility
References
External links
- Jeremy York (November 2008). "Legibility and Large-Scale Digitization" (PDF). Hathitrust Digital Library. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
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