Lab entry

State Visibility Readability Study

Lab study on readability and scan behavior for trust markers and low-emphasis metadata on dense records.

Trust state: reviewed
Experiment kind: readability study
Maturity: study

This study captures readability behavior for state-signaling surfaces without inventing external usability metrics.

Findings

Legibility is strongest when low-emphasis text retains clear contrast against panel backgrounds.
Trust marker proximity to titles improves scan speed without introducing decorative noise.
Dense side panels need explicit section labels to keep state and proof signals distinguishable.

Next steps

Validate these findings in a manual assistive-tech pass as route density continues to increase.
Add a published state/readability diagram when a stable artifact is available.