Something I've felt in my gut but have never cared enough to investigate...
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StephenBuckley: So I don't know much about typefaces, and this is probably a silly question, but once you read this:
Legibility itself is still poorly defined, even today, and is not well distinguished from readability. It turns out a surprising number of otherwise convincing "legibility studies" have been based on reading speed or reading comprehension, which have no bearing on glyph recognition per se.
Isn't the question of legibility somewhat moot? As long as reading speed and comprehension have little or nothing to do with it, what does 'legibility' even mean? From outside the discussion it seems like when this got proven no one had the guts to say, "Whatever, we were wrong, all fonts were created equally!"