legible

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A "for sale" sign is barely legible at the top, its letters faded by sun and salt air.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

The figures’ gestures and facial expressions are instantly legible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

The Mom’s Meals menu is full of familiar comforts engineered to be legible as “healthy.”

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2025

"I was shocked when she did, I couldn't believe how legible it was," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025

Double-entry bookkeeping thus represents an attempt to make the real world, the world of bolts of silk, bales of wool and bags of sugar, mathematically legible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton