[History Student Work] The Legible Revolution | A Critical Commentary on Aldous Huxley's “Printing of Today”

This project is my short response to Aldous Huxley's 1928 piece on printing, where I use my own experience with dyslexia to test his claim that hard-to-read type never lasts because readers won't put up with it. It matters to design history because it connects Huxley's old argiment about legibility to modern research and tools (like variable fonts and accessibility guidelines) that let you type adjust to different readers instead of assuming one style works for everyone. I argue that Huxley was right that legibility always wins in the end, but wrong to assume “legible” means the same thing for every reader.