Explain how legibility and readability can be improved in digital environments by adjusting the following variables: size, type style, tracking, leading, paragraph size, measure, and texture.

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To improve legibility and readability as a general rule most digital fonts should be used at sizes no smaller than 10 points.
If you want to apply a type style to a font, it is best to use one that has been created by the font's designer as opposed to letting your computer generate type style. Specifically, limit the use of Italics, condensed and extended typefaces and add extra letterspacing to bold type styles.
For optimal on-screen legibility set the tracking value of your type from +5 to +10 units.
Add an extra 50% to your leading for optimal on-screen legibility.
For optimal readability, paragraphs on-screen should not exceed 10 to 25 lines of text.
When the texture of a passage of on-screen type looks inconsistent, manually kern or adjust the letter spacing.
The optimal on-screen line length, or measure, is shorter than it is for print—about 40 characters per line, as compared to an optimal print measure of about 60 characters per line