- The quality of being clear enough to read.
- It measures the distinguish one letter from another in a font-family.
Importance of Legibility:
- Different typefaces are designed for different uses. For example the original Garamond was designed to be highly legible when printed in large body of text.
Display vs Text:
- Some typefaces were designed to be used large such as in headlines.
- Usually these typefaces are less readable at smaller size and should not be used for body copy. These are called as display faces.
- Other typefaces are used in large area of smaller size. These are called body face or text.
Serif vs Sans Serif:
- Serif faces have always been regarded as more legible. So almost it is used in print for larger passage of text.
- Sans Serif faces are less legible compare to Serif face. It used for body text. So it is used in screens
X-height:
- It is applies to using type at body text sizes.
- The X-height is well the measurement of height of the lowercase "x" in a given font.
- When used small typefaces with larger X-heights are more readable.
Rules for Legibility:
- Choose medium weight font.
- Give text a comfortable size and column width.
- make type decisions invisible.
Factors affecting Legibility:
- Type size
- Type weight
- Line length
- Letter spacing
- Word spacing
- Line spacing
- Contrast between type and background.
Examples:
Advantages:
- Increase the quality of text.
- Good looking.
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