- Legibility means the quality of being clear enough to read.
- The degree to which writing or text can be read easily because the letters are clear, the text is printed well, etc.
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Advantages of Legibility :
- Easy to read under normal conditions to reader.
- Legibility makes the text easy to teach and learning.
- Easy to understand.
To Make Text More Legible :
- Choose medium font weight : Use regular or normal font-weight.Bold and Italic are harder to read.
- Give text a comfortable size and column width : Ideal size is between 13px -15px font-size and 50 - 65 characters per line.
- Make type decisions invisible : Don’t try to draw attention to text type.The reader should be reading and not thinking about text type.
Factors Effecting The Legibility :
- Type Size.
- Type weight.
- Type style.
- Line length.
- Letter spacing.
- word spacing.
- Line spacing.
- Alignment.
- Proper casing of letters.
- serif and sans-serif.
- Contrast between type and background.
Examples :
