Sentence examples for legibility from inspiring English sources
legibility
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 word "legibility" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to the quality or degree of something being easy to read or understand. For example, "This document contains important information, so we need to ensure its legibility for all readers.".
It was designed in the 1930s for the Times (of London) not just for legibility, but also for compactness so more text could fit comfortably within a column width without sacrificing readability.
The firm says this can reduce the amount of ink or toner needed by 25%, with no effect on legibility.
In "Seeing Like a State", James Scott writes of how modern governments are driven to implement rational, uniform metrics by the need of the sovereign for "legibility" of the territory they govern, and of how these metrics then distort and sometimes destroy the societies they measure.
For the sake of clarity (i.e., legibility) u was often written o before and after m, n, u, v, and w; and i was sometimes written y before and after m and n.
Their frescoes combined grandeur with a legibility and a social awareness rare in modern art.
The last has been called the most successful type design of the 20th century, a result of its economy and legibility when used on high-speed presses.
As a consequence of its decreased legibility, the spelling of the hieratic script tended to be more rigid and more complete than that of hieroglyphic writing.
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