Scientists analyzed and compared the letters of more than 100 scripts from all over the globe. They found no evidence for a long-term evolution of legibility, but found that the orientation of lines ...

There is a common saying that, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. Indeed, literally not all books should be judged by the cover. Reasons are that some locally produced books on the market would have a ...

While it's true that pixels on an OLED screen only use power when illuminated, that also means that only when pixels are off —meaning they're truly black—do you get a power savings. Most dark modes ...

Last week, political scientist James C. Scott passed away. Scott’s 1998 book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, easily ranks near the top of my most ...

The clear readability of data in a decision support system (DSS). One of the keys to a successful DSS is its ability to provide understandable answers to queries, which conform to the user's business ...

Leah Ke Yi Zheng, "Untitled" (2023), acrylic and pigments on silk over mahogany stretcher, 108 x 85 inches (all images courtesy the artist and David Lewis) The second time I saw the exhibition Leah Ke ...

The "readability" of Golf Digest and specifically the size of the print in the magazine has been the subject of several letters of late. The latest comes from a reader in Vienna, Virginia. A recent ...

Helvetica is one of the most widely used typefaces of the 20th and 21st centuries. Originally created 62 years ago by Swiss type designers Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffmann, the sans-serif has graced ...