Legibility

The ease with which individual characters and words can be distinguished and identified, determined primarily by the intrinsic design of the

Typeface. Key factors include letter differentiation,

X-Height,

Counter openness,

Stroke contrast, and

Terminal clarity. Legibility is a property of the typeface itself (how recognizable each

Glyph is in isolation or at a glance) and is distinct from

Readability, which concerns the comfort and efficiency of reading extended text and is influenced by typesetting decisions such as

Leading,

Measure, and

Alignment.