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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legibility

Legibility \Leg`i*bil"i*ty\ (l[e^]j`[i^]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n. The quality of being legible; legibleness.
--Sir. D. Brewster.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legibility

1670s; see legible + -ity.

Wiktionary
legibility

n. The property of being legible or easily readable.

WordNet
legibility
  1. n. distinctness that makes perception easy [syn: discernability]

  2. writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read [syn: readability] [ant: illegibility]

Wikipedia
Legibility

Legibility is the ease with which a reader can recognize individual characters in text. "The legibility of a typeface is related to the characteristics inherent in its design … which relate to the ability to distinguish one letter from the other." Aspects of type design that affect legibility include " x-height, character shapes, stroke contrast, the size of its counters, serifs or lack thereof, and weight."

Legibility is different from readability. Readability is the ease with which a reader can recognize words, sentences, and paragraphs. Legibility is a component of readability. Other typographic factors that affect readability include font choice, point size, kerning, tracking, line length, leading, and justification.

Usage examples of "legibility".

I was considering of the experiments to be made, in order to ascertain the composition of ancient inks, it occurred to me that perhaps one of the best methods of restoring legibility to decayed writing might be to join phlogisticated alkali with the remaining calx of iron, because, as the quantity of precipitate formed by these two substances very much exceeds that of the iron alone, the bulk of the colouring matter would thereby be greatly augmented.

Clearly Master Fandarel entertained no reservations about accepting the Aivas's offer to restore his Records to legibility.