critique
legibility
Ability of a construction to let its signs be separated.
lisibilité
Aptitude d'une construction à laisser séparer ses signes.
Bertin en fait des règles de séparation reposant sur trois facteurs : densité graphique, séparation angulaire, séparation rétinienne.
Classification
- critique
Attestation
- French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (59)
385 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 7 books
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- A field guide to digital color
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Barnier, Introduction à R et au tidyverse
- Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- buildingsciencegraphics.com
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data Feminism
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- dataphys.org
- datavizindex.fr
- datawrapper.de↗
- Dehaene, “The Perception of Graphics: A New Instance of Neuronal Recycling”, lecture course at the Collège de France, 2025 (in French)↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- github.com↗
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Insee, Guide de sémiologie graphique, édition 2017↗
- La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information
- Larmarange et al., analyse-R: introduction to survey analysis with R
- Larmarange, guide-R: analysing survey data with R
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Magrit user manual, French version (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Manuel de datavisualisation - 2e éd, vol. 2
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- Rakotomalala, statistics course notes (Université Lyon 2)
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- Storytelling with data: let's practice!
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The elements of typographic style
- The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
- The visual display of quantitative information
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- utilitR, collaborative R documentation (Insee)
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualizing with text
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, authorized French translation (W3C)
- wiki.wordsoftype.com
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. legibility. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/legibility.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-legibility,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {legibility},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/legibility.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.