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 ...

The way text is formatted can measurably influence productivity and user satisfaction. We work with modern software through so called GUIs – graphical user interfaces. And yet, most information being ...

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 ...

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 ...