Typography Is About Understanding, Not Readability
When legibility and readability are a problem
Readability is the quality of text that makes it easy to follow for sustained periods with minimal strain to the reader. Traditionally, readability is achieved through the use of highly legible typefaces, highly contrasted colors, and well proportioned line lengths and spacing.
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The goal of readability is to allow the reader to move through text as effortlessly and quickly as possible, with the typography becoming transparent to the author’s underlying message.
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Surprising, though, transparency may actually work against understanding the authors message if it becomes too easy to read or fluent. Instead, introducing a certain amount of disfluency into the design — making the text less legible — may actually increase the reader’s ability to remember and process the information.
https://cranfordteague.https://medium.com/typography-is-about-understanding-not-legibility-70274322a3a2
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