Readability vs. Legibility

Readability and Legibilty are two seperate things, readability is how easy it is to read a lot of text, extended text, pages, and pages of text. Legibilty is how easy it is to recognize bursts of texts such as headlines, buttons, signs ext. When you are making your site you need to keep in mind when it comes to text that you do not want to make it to big or to small, you never want to set all your text in bold, italic, all caps, small caps ext. you want to avoid long lines of text, on screen smaller lines are are better. You will also have to make sure there is enough contrast between the text and the backround to make it easier on the reader. When it comes to legibilty you do not want to set your text in all caps, like i already mentioned above it is easier to read in smaller text and the same applies to legibilty. Make sure you remian consious about your  page, keep in mind if it looks hard to read than it is. You can use different fonts when creating your page but once again you need to remain consious about the font you chose because it may come up different on your viewers computer and thier computer will replace it with his browser's default font. In print underlining is not allowed as it means the underlined words should be italic, on the web underlining certain words allows the viewer to know it is a link. I learned in chapter 12 there are a total of 5 different ways to cascade each one refering to how style sheets are implemented.