Whether something is legible depends on what the object in question is, who it is for and what is its purpose. For example the legibility on an iphone app is going to be different from the legibility on.. say an information leaflet.
On an iphone you need the type to be readable and because of the screen size you don't want chunks of text where as on a leaflet you need chunks of texts because that is what they are used for. WHEN CREATING A LEAFLET YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT LARGE BODIES OF TEXT ARE NOT ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS. As you can see it does not work, it confuses the document making the it illegible.
An example of a good leaflet is http://www.jakespens.net/leaflet.JPG not only is the type legible but it is well thought out in terms of its visual hierarchy, the below is a diagram of where I looked and in what order:
The first thing that I looked at was the picture of the fountain pens which instantly drew my attention to the title.
They were put together like this for the purpose to draw you attention to one another, therefore leading you from one aspect of the leaflet to another working your way to the end.
When making this document they would have thought about: Colour,line, weight, scale, composition and images all of these things play a big part in visual hierarchy. A big heavy title will draw your attention straight away typically newspapers do this for example the times. http://www.oldspotinn.co.uk/graphics/News_Times-150208.jpg but a bold title is not the only way to draw in your attention, others use images over title as you can see by the sun http://mr-mercury.co.uk/Images/Sunfid.jpg
legibility and visual hierarchy work together to make a successful leaflet, poster, app, advertisement ect my point is that everything uses this for anything to be successful you have to consider how to make it legible and draw people in.
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