Subject of study. Principles and technologies for synthesis of test letter charts and standardization of measurements of reading parameters for evaluation of visual performance in the reading process, which is the most important type of human visual activity, are the subjects of the study. Aim of study. The study was aimed at developing a synthesis algorithm for textual isognostic images for quantitatively evaluating reading parameters as indicators of the state of visual performance that ensure the correlation between optical and semantic properties based on optical and optometric standards. Methods of study. A set of test images in the form of texts was created using digital methods for image synthesis. The text images were standardized for measuring reading parameters using optometric methods. Main results. A set of texts was synthesized and standardized considering the complexity and number of symbols in words, the frequency of occurrence and average width of Russian letters, the lengths of sentences, the angular sizes of characters, and the contrast. The text was standardized according to the angular visual acuity and conventional optometric standard ISO 8596, 2009. The synthesized test images comprised sets of text fragments of similar numbers of characters but different angular sizes. The sizes of the characters were correlated with the threshold angular values characterizing visual acuity according to optometric standards. The maximum reading speed, critical print size, and reading acuity were measured in 29 healthy adult test subjects to assess the reproducibility of results obtained using the synthesized test images. The measurements were performed twice for each test subject using two different charts synthesized using the developed method. No statistically significant difference was observed between the measurement results, which indicated good reproducibility of the results obtained using this test. Practical significance. The proposed algorithm for synthesis of standardized texts for assessing reading parameters is the simplest general method for a broad application in routine effectiveness evaluation of the therapy of macular zone pathology and lens fitting for short working distances.