legibility

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Noun

legibility (countable and uncountable, plural legibilities)

1. The property of being legible or easily readable.

   Synonym: readability

   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.

   • 1922, Lucien Alphonse Legros, A Note on the Legibility of Printed Matter‎:

     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.

Antonyms

• illegibility

Derived terms

• interlegibility

Translations

property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability

Bulgarian: четливост f (četlivost) Catalan: llegibilitat f Czech: čitelnost f Dutch: leesbaarheid (nl) f Finnish: luettavuus (fi) French: lisibilité (fr) f German: Lesbarkeit (de) f Hungarian: olvashatóság (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: leselighet m or f Portuguese: legibilidade (pt) f Romanian: legibilitate f Russian: разборчивость (ru) (razborčivostʹ) Spanish: legibilidad f Swedish: läsbarhet (sv) Turkish: okunaklılık

Further reading

• legibility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia