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The study “Resolution limit of the eye: how many pixels can we see?” by Maliha Ashraf (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Chapiro (Meta) and Rafał Mantiuk (University of Cambridge) provides new insights into the limits of our vision. The research team measured how many pixels the human eye can actually distinguish and arrived at about 94 pixels per degree at the center of the visual field. The paper shows that current 4K displays already practically exhaust our visual acuity, and higher resolutions are unlikely to look noticeably better. That means 8K TV should have lost much of its relevance. ...

Contrary to some assumptions, according to a study the special typeface “Dyslexie” does not statistically help people with dyslexia when reading. Youki Terada writes in »Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work?« for edutopia.org In a separate 2018 study, researchers compared another popular dyslexia font—Dyslexie, which charges a fee for usage—with Arial and Times New Roman and found no benefit to reading accuracy and speed. As with the previous dyslexia font, children expressed a preference for the mainstream fonts. “All in all, the font Dyslexie, developed to facilitate the reading of dyslexic people, does not have the desired effect,” the researchers concluded. “Children with dyslexia do not read better when text is printed in the font Dyslexie than when text is printed in Arial or Times New Roman.” ...