Cases Quote by Michael Bierut

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...

— Larry Wall

The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if…

— Zuzana Licko

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

— Samuel Johnson

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what…

— Judith Butler

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

— Julian Barnes

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

— Rae Armantrout

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and…

— Stephen King

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

— Eddie Izzard

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

— Juan Enriquez

I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence…

— Erik Naggum

“ Designing for readability Some exhibiting institutions recommend in their guidelines that all texts should be readable by an average twelve-year-old. Studies show that…

— Philip Hughes