legibility

noun

legibility

noun

UK /lɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ · CA, US /ˌlɛd͡ʒ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/

1

The property of being legible or easily readable.

  • The legibility of this text is questionable: half the people asked said it was almost illegible, but the other half said it was easy to read.
  • The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another.1922, Lucien Alphonse Legros, A Note on the Legibility of Printed Matter:
Antonyms
illegibility
Derived terms
interlegibility

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