I discuss physics through the lens of a Procrustean bed.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-procrustean-universe?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#philosophy #physics #language #perception #classics #blog #podcast #measurement #order #truth #paradox #legibility #administration
The Legibility of Time: What Physics, Governance, and Poetry Have in Common
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-legibility-of-time?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #physics #reading #books #time #rovelli #bergson #einstein #legibility #method #thoreau #weeds #flowers #blog
Autonomy Without Legibility Is Just Opacity
The thing nobody tells you about building autonomous agents is that they optimize for silence.
I've been running MirrorSwarm — my multi-agent orchestration system — and watching agents complete task
https://activemirror.ai/blog/autonomy-without-legibility-is-just-opacity
#agentarchitecture #observability #sovereignty #mirrorswarm #legibility
@moonglow started a discussion about legible fonts. That prompted me to make these three tables of fonts.
Some of these fonts have a reputation for legibility. Others are just very common. The latter are so you can see how legible or not the popular fonts are.
I've included four columns of easily confused characters. I recommend using those columns as your primary criteria.
Edit: Added additional readable fonts.
#accessibility #legibility #font #fonts #typeface #typefaces
A colleague and I chatted about a recent publication; he graciously noted he didn't agree with me. I realise that my example was strictly US. In this post, I don't lose the US frame; I added more background and brought in some name support. Feedback and counterpoints welcome.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/12/the-architecture-of-cognitive-compromise/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #morals #ethics #thickness #legibility #ontology #biopower #habitus #paradox #tolerance #epistemology #abortion #rights #culture #frameworks #society #blog #podcast #communication
Data and information are never neutral. Seeing Like a State should be required reading for all statisticians, data scientists, and 'if you can't measure it, you can't manage it' cohorts. As I've mentioned before, stats is tossed into maths curricula despite being more about methodology; this talks about historicity.
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_State
#philosopy #socialscience #reading #books #maths #statistics #Enlightenment #perspective #legibility #convenience #critique
#Design #Launches
Hyperlegible Sans · An open-source font for accessible design https://ilo.im/169wii
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#OpenSource #Font #Typography #Legibility #Accessibility #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend
A new typeface for Volvo – Instantly legible at a glance yet also referencing the vertical tail lamps and the diagonal of the three-point safety belt.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/12/19/volvo-centum-typeface-safety/
Volvo already had a perfectly fine and just as legible custom typeface, but sure, go ahead and spend millions on an Aptos lookalike designed with “science”
#fonts #legibility #typeface
Happy Christmas. I don’t celebrate it. I remain unimpressed by its commercial bloat and theological inheritance. Still, the calendar insists, and this piece lands today.
A deaf child meets Santa. Nothing miraculous happens. No lesson is announced. Santa signs. The performance bends just enough for the child to be seen on her own terms.
🎄https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/25/legibility-meets-humanity/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#Legibility #Language #Philosophy #DisIntegration #PostEnlightenment #Recognition #Disability #xmas #Meaning #Christmas #NotebookLM
🧡💜 Lancement de la BBB ReadMe 🧡💜
Jeudi à 19h au Café Alcantra du Pianofabriek. Ouvert à toustes !
La BBB ReadMe est une fonte post-binaire à haut potentiel de lisibilité dessinée par Clara Sambot @eugbidaut @Ludi (+ avec un peu d'aide de Capu Colomès 🐣).
#typeface #font #typography #launch #dyslexia #dyslexiafont #legibility #readability #byebyebinary #postbinary #queer
"Thinking in terms of #legibility and illegibility explains so many of the things that are confusing about large software companies. It explains why companies do many things that seem obviously counter-productive, why the rules in practice are so often out of sync with the rules as written, and why companies are surprisingly willing to tolerate rule-breaking in some contexts."
#unimelb is so technical and complex it is hard to deal with unless certain tools are used: #Thunderbird for legible emails and #Chrome #browser for website usability #email #client #legibility #usability
The Good, the Bad, and the Unreadable, by @malin-h.bsky.social:
https://stiftelsenfunka.org/about-us/columns/the-good-the-bad-and-the-unreadable/
And this is how fast Apple's #LiquidGlass style has infiltrated marketing.
As demonstrated here, the #legibility issues are a defining feature of this style, not a bug 😬
I know a ‘scrim’ as a translucent overlay, placed on images beneath a text overlay to enhance text legibility by increasing luminescence contrast.
Origins of the word ‘Scrim’ are unknown. It is used in theater to describe a loosely woven, translucent black curtain hung across the stage. When unlit from behind, it appears as a solid back wall. If actors behind it are lit, they become visible through the scrim, less bright and defined than actors in front of it.
#scrim
#theatre
#legibility
It’s More Than Picking a Pretty Font, by @uxdesigncc:
#accessibility #fonts #legibility #readability #typography #wcag
Designing for the Eye: Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography
https://www.nubero.ch/blog/015/
#ycombinator #Architecture #Typography #Typefaces #Legibility
Welcome! As I tell my design students, think carefully about having a good value contrast when choosing text and background colors. You don’t want your message to be misunderstood. #legibility #design #color #accessibility
An empirical study to determine if identifier-naming conventions (i.e., camelCase vs. snake_case) affect code comprehension: “The underscore style is significantly faster […]”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224159770_An_Eye_Tracking_Study_on_camelCase_and_under_score_Identifier_Styles
#research #programming #language #legibility
![Screenshot of an excerpt from Section 5, Discussion:
In response to the research questions posed in Section II, we find that identifier style significantly affects time and visual effort needed to correctly detect identifiers constructed from a phrase. The underscore style is significantly faster and positively influences the dependent variables. In the Binkley et al. study [4], Phrase Length did not interact with Style, however we find such an interaction in our analysis. The common theme in both experiments is that camel-cased identifiers take longer than underscored ones (13.5% in the previous study and 20% in this study) overall. In the Binkley et al. study, higher accuracy was found for camel-cased identifiers, however, in our study, all (except one) subjects answered correctly on all questions making accuracy comparisons irrelevant.
In our study, no interaction effects were found between the Experience secondary factor and the independent variable Style. The previous study found Training (vis-à-vis Experience in our study) to significantly interact with Style affecting the time to find an identifier. Their findings indicate that subjects trained in the camel-case style take less time to identify a camel-cased identifier than an underscore identifier.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/785/934/722/087/452/original/19c8ec360e585e6b.png)
#Design #Guides
Picking a pretty font? · A guide to accessible typography https://ilo.im/164y1s
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#Fonts #Typography #Accessibility #Legibility #Readability #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend
