Dining Out: Reading Menus

Gothamist (one of our favorite NY sites) has an article today about how certain NY restaurants are providing diners with tiny flashlights and reading glasses in an effort to help them decipher their menus. Trusty Gothamist then calls for better designed menus with (gasp!) legible type and busts out some statistics from Psychology Today about how the human eye actually deciphers printed matter. Interesting, especially if you're out there as a designer forced to cram tons of text into a limited space (and we have all been there). Read the article.