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legibility

le juh bi luh tee

  • n  distinctness that makes perception easy
  • n  a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read

  • The issue is thus one between attractiveness and legibility, or between form and content, and Vanity Fair, not wishing to undertake a campaign of education, casts its vote by .
  • Many professors, especially at law schools, welcomed the typewriters' greater legibility.
  • Indeed, his suicide gave his art a simplified legibility that it did not really have the operatic wholeness of art and life that a myth-hungry audience expects of peintres .
News & Articles

  • 10 Best Sans-Serif Web Fonts From Google Fonts Library
    When it comes to web fonts, designers have many options to choose from. Google Fonts library has over 600 font families; however, many of those are unversatile and unsuitable for body copy. I have chosen the selected fonts based on quality, legibility, versatility, and number of available styles and weights.
    March 6, 2014 - Forbes
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  • Newt Gingrich in Reuters Canada
    In the 21st century, the legibility of a doctor's handwriting should not determine whether a patient lives or dies,said Gingrich, who founded the advocacy group Center for Health Transformation.
  • Glenn Ligon in Toronto Star
    So much of my work has been about disappearing,Ligon added. "It's about visibility and legibility being a metaphor for certain kinds of historical disappearance."
  • Neville Brody in Times Online
    Mr Brody said: "Times Modern is a contemporary answer to the needs of compact newspapers. With pinched proportions, it allows more copy in the headline without compromising legibility. It is both authoritative and elegant, while robust at smaller...

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