illegibility
This allows you to fit more copy in the headline without compromising legibility.
The relationship between handwriting speed and legibility was investigated.
The layout and font size of contracts was regulated, in the interests of legibility.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing handwriting & print
asemic
autographic
chicken scratch
crabbed
crossed
cursively
handwritten
indecipherable
joined up
jot
legible
legibly
non-character
pencilled
scratching
spidery
undecipherable
undeciphered
writing
written

legibility | Business English

legibility
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌledʒɪˈbɪləti/us
the degree to which writing or text can be read easily because the letters are clear, the text is printed well, etc.:
Among the changes we recommend are the removal of unnecessary text from labels, greater legibility, the use of larger print, and less glaring colours.

Examples of legibility

legibility
But the legibility of just about every line and note indicates that considerable care was taken; we're not seeing material just scooped out of files.
As a cultural practice, crime storytelling thus had historical ramifications that went beyond questions of 'legibility' and the tricks of the so-called 'urban uncanny'.
This decreases legibility and means that somewhat dense discussions are rendered presentationally even more opaque.
The video of each session was then scored for navigation, legibility, safety, task performance and the participant's expressed level of comfort.
The systematic nature of the conceptual structure reveals a tendency for legibility.
And the three-dimensional legibility of this approach is conveyed in a facade language that seems an almost inevitable outcome of the various manipulations.
This reconstruction was an ideological sine qua non of the project of legibility.
The structural legibility of the roof is extended by the treatment of the supporting concrete frame.
Special care will be taken that the legibility of the text is not compromised by the use of too many editorial markings.
I was also delighted to find a satisfactory increase in legibility through a sharper type face and daring use of blacker ink!
If it retains its legibility in all places, however, that is because it provides its reader with the means of converting its units of measurement.
The legibility of the concrete within the fabric was a revelation, with free water sweating through as the concrete level rose within the formwork.
That ideology decoupled concerns about privacy from what progressives saw as the imperative project of legibility.
One simple example is that of the effect of handwriting legibility on test scores.
The nascent trade press establishes its own identity by engaging with and overseeing the drive for narrative legibility.
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