Sanford, now president of Clark College, published in the "American Journal of Psychology" an exhaustive study on "The Relative Legibility of the Small Letters.
Is there any difference as regards legibility between antique and medium plate finish, and which is better and by what percentage?
Already a high degree of legibility has been attained without sacrifice; the future is full of promise.
These differences in legibility prove to be greater when letters are presented in isolation from one another than when they are presented in groups.
The average legibility of the best and worst is: W, 300.
The reader opens them only for momentary reference, and he can well afford to sacrifice a certain degree of legibility to handiness.
He studied simply the letter forms, to determine the order of legibility in the alphabet and the groups most liable to confusion, in order to discover what letters most need improvement and upon what clearness depends.
Being an oculist, he naturally adopted the test of distance to determine the legibility of single letters at the limit of vision, and he employed the oculist's special type.
Obviously these sizes were chosen with reference to their power to attract attention; in the one case an excess of legibilityand in the other case, quite as properly, its deficiency.
Ordinary type is the result of an attempt to combine with legibility an all-round fitness of expression.
On the other hand, have the designers of certain types attained by instinct or by happy accident a degree of legibility that approximates the best to be hoped for?
It gives comfortable legibilityin sizes of type from 8-point to 14-point.
This thickness is commonly accepted as the average spacing required for legibility in a printed page to be held in the hand.
My dear Lilla, */ Forgive my use of this fierce legibility to speak to you in my now at best faltering accents.
Don't shudder, I beg you, at the sight of this grim legibility--even when you compare it with your own exquisite mastery of legibility without grimness!
Grace and legibility are the two chief glories of penmanship, but other attributes are not without their effect.
But the mere fact of attaining to eighty or ninety years will not absolutely guarantee, though it seems to promote, legibility of writing.
How can we so divide words that the legibilityand intelligibility of the text will be maintained, the line justified to register, and the beauty of the page enhanced?
Anything that adds to the legibility of the printing improves it; anything that detracts from its legibility harms it.
This matter is considered in its relation to good spacing and to the legibility of the printed page.
Art in lettering is only to be attained by solving the problem of legibility in the way most pleasing to the eye.
Only when it combineslegibility with beauty can it be excellent.
In no characters is the contrast between the ugly and vulgar illegibility of the modern type and the elegance and legibility of the ancient more striking than in the Arabic numerals.
I think that is the reason for the poor legibility of this ink writing.
Now there is fairlegibility in the letters of the first name, and they do have a moderate rate or amount of similarity to the standard writing, but since it is only a few letters, I think there is not a basis for a conclusion.
I think one could say that from the fair legibility of the first name, and the very poor legibility of the last name, that this is a deliberate effort.
Yes, that was purposely done in an effort to improve the legibility of the handwriting shown on 773.
And furthermore as the old-fashioned notion that a legible hand is a mark of bad breeding dies out, it may be that our current handwriting will take legibility and beauty from such practice.
Having acquired a formal hand the penman may modify and alter it, taking care that the changes are compatible, and that they do not impair its legibility or beauty.
It should be clearly understood that legibilityby no means excludes either beauty or ornament.
In Miss Roethlin's tables, based upon a combination of the factors mentioned above, the maximum of legibility almost always coincides with that of size.
That the general legibility of books would benefit by doing away with this mediaeval excrescence appears to admit of no doubt, although the proposal may seem somewhat startling to the general reader.
As to the relative legibility of different type-faces, one of the most exhaustive investigations was that made at Clark University by Miss Barbara E.
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