The eye chart you’ve known for your whole life is a lie. Because the letters you read off of it don’t actually make up a whole alphabet. While you’ve probably never noticed it from the optometrist’s ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Using glasses could be a thing of the past as scientists have developed special eye drops that could help people with long-sightedness. A new study presented at the European Society of Cataract and ...

A new study shows potential for eye tests to be conducted easily and affordably using a smartphone app. An app to test eyesight easily and affordably using a smartphone is as accurate as traditional ...

The Jaeger chart was designed to test near vision acuity. Eduard Jaeger von Jaxtthal (1818–1884) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and a professor at the University of Vienna who, in the 1850s, made ...

My graphic design students love to design posters using the classic eye chart composition, and they frequently ask “What typeface should I use for this?” Not having a definitive answer has always been ...