Text that seems legible (visually pleasing at first glance) may be shown to actually impair reading effectiveness when subjected to scientific study.
Tyler Angle's clarity and intelligence of intent made phrases seem more legible than they were.
A single paragraph of St. Aubyn's may start out in clipped comic mode and seem perfectly legible, then slowly curdle into something much more unreadable and mysterious, like this poignant recital of Patrick's psychosomatic symptoms: His body was a graveyard of buried emotion; its symptoms were clustered around the same fundamental terror..
A single paragraph of St. Aubyn's may start out in clipped comic mode and seem perfectly legible, then slowly curdle into something much more unreadable and mysterious, like this poignant recital of Patrick's psychosomatic symptoms: His body was a graveyard of buried emotion; its symptoms were clustered around the same fundamental terror...
In the 80s, the edifices of the second world war seemed as legible to me as the promise of a European future.
Comic Neue also seems more legible, mainly because of bigger "counters" (the empty bit in "p", for instance).
One problem was that a single page of him made other writers, especially the loftier and more lauded variety, seem about as legible as wallpaper paste.
The essential Trumpian conundrum: he seems the most legible of men, yet, for all the fine work of his many biographers, none has figured out what truly goes on inside his head.
She seems to have no legible past, no obvious context.
The quiet eccentricity and inwardness of Mr. Walken's Gabriel have been made more legible without seeming less idiosyncratic, and the sensuality of Ms. Brown's Gretta is, more than ever, the evening's warming hearth.
