Quotes About Readability

If there is an essential truism in typesetting, it is that a page contains no voids, only spaces between printed elements. The essence of typesetting is regulating the size of those spaces to control the balance and rhythm between black and white. This is the key to a graphically harmonious page—one with good type color—as well as to text that is pleasing and easy to read.

Aquello que se escribió con esfuerzo se lee con facilidad

the East, notably Prester John, which added to its readability and appeal, even as they compromised its claims to authenticity.

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

has been to make each chapter factually accurate, interesting to read, and relevant to readers' lives. In the process, the book has been completely reorganized, updated, and rewritten for this fifth edition. In making these revisions, I have tried to keep in mind that scienc

I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.

If you have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

Every reader of your program should understand what your functions compute without having to read the function itself. A multi-function program should also come with a purpose statement. Indeed, good programmers write two purpose statements: one for the reader who may have to modify the code and another one for the person who wishes to use the program but not read it.