legibility

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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[1]:
      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.

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