At least once in your life, you must have squinted at the eye chart at the doctor’s office or DMV, trying to make out the blurry bottom line. The test seems simple enough, right? Read a random ...

The Snellen chart typically has 11 rows of large capital letters. The first line is the big letter ... feet away and the letter and the eye forms an angle of 5 arc minute (1 arc minute = 1/60 ...

In this poster, graphic designer Paul Rand plays with the iconography of eye charts to create a clever advertisement for Yale University. He incorporates the school’s mascot, an English bulldog, into ...

Around three quarters of people in the UK wear glasses or contact lenses, or have had laser eye surgery ... his name into the chart. Reading upwards, ignoring the last line, the letters on the ...