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 ...

From 1829 to 1846 a team of British cartographers created a world first: a complete ordnance map of a country. It was a monumental undertaking. Led by Thomas Colby, engineers from the Royal Sappers ...

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 ...

Legibility is a useful concept that can explain how market regulations evolve over time through the interplay of market demand for and state supply of regulation. It can explain the puzzling ...

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