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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Architectural legibility requires both visual clarities of a building’s appearance such that its formal, spatial, and material compositions can be comprehended, as well as a certain clarity of its ...

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following up on the 2012 research, Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE) today announced that together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...