Week 2 Blog - Readability v. Legibility

Readability is the ability to read and understand easily a lot of text.   Legibility is the ability to decipher individual letters and characters. 

There are many things to consider when designing a webpage.  You want your webpage to grab the viewer’s attention and keep the viewer on the page.  One of the ways to do this is to incorporate good typography when designing your page.  If your website is easy to read and legible, a viewer will be more willing stay on your page.   

Some things to consider when designing your page is that you should not set the text too big or too small; you should not bold, italic, use all caps, etc. on a large amount of text; you should not make the text lines too long; and you should make sure that the text color shows a good contrast against the background.

Another thing to be conscious of is the style of font you choice.  You want to choose a font that is universal to all computer systems.  If you select a font that is not universal to all systems, when the viewer opens the webpage the browser will replace the font with a default font changing the look of your webpage and may even make it hard to read.