LEGIBILITY / QUALITY

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Legibility is the clarity of visually-presented text, affected for instance by the size of the text, the contrast between similar letters, quality of printing or display (whether the text is damaged or blurred), the line-spacing and word-spacing, and the shape and style of individual letters. Legibility is distinct from “readability”, which indicates how easy it is to understand the text, provided that it can be read.