legible

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Its opening sequence is both graceful and conspicuous; its exposition is entirely legible, yet so very charming that its plainness doesn’t matter one bit.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

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

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Yet the legible parts of a signature on the large hanging scroll named a 15th-century Chinese court painter, Xu Gui.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

"It shook the conscience of this court as not even a word or a letter was legible," he wrote in the order.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 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