Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Capability of being read; legibleness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being legible; legibleness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The property that makes legible or easily readable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • And looking at the handwriting, the legibility is a direct correlation to the speed of the song at the time.

    My Fun Filled Friday Night sidewinder 2003

  • I don't care a whit about photos, graphics or other layout issues (of course, legibility is a plus).

    April 2008 2008

  • I don't care a whit about photos, graphics or other layout issues (of course, legibility is a plus).

    Extra! Extra! Read all about it! 2008

  • In Poe's story, the cryptic assertion that a particular book does not allow itself to be read becomes part of a larger structure of self-reference in which legibility is no longer a factor of clarity or obscurity.

    Article Abstracts 2005

  • Jamie Zawinski has written a perl script to convert blocks of normal text into text where letters excluding the first and last are "scrmabled," to prove the point that legibility is only marginally affected by altering spelling of words, provided that first/last letters are left intact.

    Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The color PalmOS devices use a backlit screen -- legibility is therefore a function of how much brighter the backlight is than the ambient light.

    Boing Boing: June 24, 2001 - June 30, 2001 Archives 2001

  • A large x-height often allows type to be used at smaller sizes, but also means that more leading (space between lines) is required to maintain legibility.

    Font Rage Part Deux « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006

  • Since the second page was a bit hard to read, I enhanced it for legibility, which is the image on the right.

    Average Animator Footage in 1938 Hans Perk 2007

  • Since the second page was a bit hard to read, I enhanced it for legibility, which is the image on the right.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Hans Perk 2007

  • Here, plainly, the meaning is, that every one reading the vision should be alarmed by it, and should fly from the impending calamity: and although this involves the notion of legibility and clearness, that notion is the secondary, and not the primary one, as those persons make it who misquote in the manner stated above.

    Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 Various

  • “Legibility” is a term in state-making that refers to the process of mapping citizens: to categorize and arrange peoples, in order to, among other things, tax them.

    What's Not in a Name? - Believer Magazine 2022

  • This is a form of personal violation and a kind of “legibility harm”—a degree of representation that violates the sanctity of our inner lives.

    Data as Property? | Salomé Viljoen Salomé Viljoen 2022

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