"Legibility" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "plainness" of Miss Boyle's handwriting is good-humouredly ironical; that lady's writing being by no means famous for its legibility. ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens
... legibility of different type-faces, one of the most exhaustive investigations was that made at Clark University by Miss Barbara E. Roethlin, whose results were published in 1912. This study considers questions of form, ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... in his private office, received the message and wrinkled his brow as he read it. Telegraphing does not always improve the legibility of a message. As the message reached the ...
— Mike Flannery On Duty and Off • Ellis Parker Butler
... hand, the small letter form is excellently adapted for the printed page, where the occasional capitals but tend to break the monotony, while the ascenders and descenders strongly characterize and increase the legibility of ...
— Letters and Lettering - A Treatise With 200 Examples • Frank Chouteau Brown
... Lorrequer—As her ladyship and my son have in vain essayed to get any thing from you in the shape of reply to their letters, it has devolved upon me to try my fortune, which were I to augur from the legibility of my writing, may not, I should fear, prove more successful than the"—(what can the word be?) "the—the" —why, it can't be damnable, surely?—no, it is amiable, I see —"than the amiable epistle of my lady. I cannot, however, permit myself ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872) |
