Legibility

How well or poorly something can be read.

More terms you might want to know

Hamburger Menu

A well-known UI element in computer applications. It's an expandable menu of context-specific commands typically launched from the application's main menu.

Raster

Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.

Usability Testing

A process in which subjects use a product or service under test conditions and report their experience.

Material Design

A design language developed by Google. The goal of Material Design was to create fluid, natural movement for users on any platform they happen to be using.

Type Properties

The attributes of a typeface. Type properties include weight, width, colour and x-height.

Hero Image

The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.

Serif

The small decorative stroke at the end of a stroke in a letter, or a typeface.

Lowercase

The designation of a set of character encoding styles for glyphs that are not capital letters.

Glassmorphism

The use of light or dark objects positioned over colourful backgrounds. Blurred backdrops allow bright colours to come through and convey a sense of frosted glass.

Bold

A greater typographic weight than the standard typeface, often used to highlight text that the writer wants to emphasise or denote sections, headlines or quotes in printed material.

Bold type is a little heavier than the average type because of its higher contrast, making it more readable. The opposite of bold type is light type, also known as regular or book.

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