As it happens, in the intervening years, many smart sites have found a way to put content first and emphasize not just legibility but readability in their layouts.
I messed around with more borders and then with the fonts, settling on two that (I believed) were fresh and unexpected but didn't sacrifice legibility.
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.
Rather, the distribution of accuracy for the categorizations was normally distributed Shapiro-Wilkk's W = .96, p = .07), suggesting that participants' accuracy was based upon a general ability to infer political affiliation from targets' faces, not just the legibility of a small set of faces.
Neither the Parr Chart, nor the Sheridan Gardiner test, meet the International Visual Acuity Chart Guidelines 5 due to the non-standardised progression of letter sizes and the use of letters which do not have equal legibility.
These errors didn't even include legibility issues, when the pharmacist couldn't read the handwriting with confidence and called the provider to clarify.
Readability should not to be confused with legibility, which is concerned with typeface and layout.
Results indicate that Coherence, Complexity, and Mystery positively explained PRP while Legibility did not.
As Paisley Currah, professor of Political Science at City University of New York, explains in a paper titled "Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Transgender Bodies at the Airport," "When an individual's cultural legibility is not affirmed by their identity papers, even everyday quotidian transactions become moments of vulnerability".
In developed countries, legibility may not be an issue because of electronic records.
