Luettavainen

Luettavainen is a Finnish adjective meaning readable or able to be read. It describes texts, fonts, or layouts that are easy to read and understand, particularly in terms of legibility and presentation. The word is formed from the verb lukea (to read) through the participial stem luettava and the adjectival suffix -inen, yielding a formal expression of a text’s readability.

In usage, luettavainen is most common in technical, publishing, or accessibility contexts. It appears in discussions about typography, document design, and information design, where readability properties are evaluated and described. In everyday language, more common alternatives are luettava and easily luettava, while luettavuus is the noun used to refer to readability as a quality or metric.

Related terms include luettavuus (readability), which denotes the overall quality or measure of how easy something is to read, and luettava teksti, a phrase often used to indicate text that readers can comfortably process. The concept is also connected to accessibility considerations, such as font choice, contrast, and line length, which influence whether material is luettavainen for a broad audience.

Overall, luettavainen captures the property of text or design being suitable for reading, particularly in contexts where formal evaluation of readability is relevant. It is a specialized term that complements more common expressions like luettava and luettavuus in Finnish discourse on text quality and user experience.