Readability and Legiblity

     What is the difference between readability and legibility, the spelling ??

Actually there is a big difference. Readability is how easy it is to read a lot of text, extended text, pages and pages of text. Legibility is how easy it is to recognize short bursts of text, such as headlines, buttons, signs and so on. Generally we will use a serif font for readability and a sans serif font for legibility. We don"t want to make the font to big or to small and never have large amounts of text bold, italic, all caps, etc. Use small lines of text instead of long lines of text that may be spread across the entire page. For the reader long lines of text make it very difficult to distinguish between the beginnings and the ends of the lines. You will also want to provide contrast between the text and the background. Lack of contrast will not keep the reader focused or interested.

    There is a lot to keep in mind here. You will need to put a great deal of thought into your design so as to keep fonts and styles well proportioned and flowing in your layout so that the readers will stay focused and interested. It needs to be well contrasted and easy to read.