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legibility

noun

  1. ease with which a reader can recognize individual characters in text
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /lɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ / /ˌlɛd͡ʒ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/ / [ˌlɛd͡ʒ.əˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]

noun

  1. The property of being legible or easily readable.

    The legibility of this text is questionable: half the people asked said it was almost illegible, but the other half said it was easy to read.

    The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another.