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 ...

We evaluated the Runge card, a near-vision eye chart designed for ease of use, by testing agreement in visual acuity results between it and the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) ...

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 string ...

What does 20/20 vision mean? When you visit your doctor or an eye care professional, you may be asked to read an eye chart. You may be told you have normal 20/20 vision. What does that really mean? An ...

Smartphone-based Snellen visual acuity charts has become popularized; however, their accuracy has not been established. This study aimed to evaluate the equivalence of a smartphone-based visual acuity ...

Her eye chart tests showed improvement. It took a radical experiment to find out why her reality wasn’t matching up. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. The burning started as soon as the 59-year-old woman put the ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac, January 18th, 1908, 107 years ago today . . . the day the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen died at the age of 73. You may not recognize his name, ...