What makes text
easy to read?

Simple syntax and grammar
Active verbs
Concrete nouns
Short sentences
Personal pronouns
Few adjectives and adverbs
Legibility
Clean, simple presentation
Subheads
Comfortable spacing between lines
Line width 40-80 characters Maximum

Easy-to-read Web pages
get more response.

Nobody reads. So why bother making text readable?

Only people can read.

The reader is not a company, not a robot, not a business (although she might be a business owner), not a demographic sector but a singular person.

if you make the text clear and easy enough for the New York Times editorial reader, the nuclear physicist will be able to understand it, too.


Most marketing text is just corporate squid ink.

A squid ink blob has
tendrils, but readers who
bite into the camouflage
get no calamari.

It's safe and generic--and invisible. Readers have trained themselves to skip right over it.

I can drain the jargon out of your site and replace it with readable text that makes your company sound interesting.