An article from the Wall Street Journal on "mouse type" and the art of unreadability:
It's Not Your Eyes…the Fine Print Is Getting Really, Really Small
An article from the Wall Street Journal on "mouse type" and the art of unreadability:
It's Not Your Eyes…the Fine Print Is Getting Really, Really Small
Hi Dan
As it says in the article, such contractual small print is only unreadable because the originator doesn't want the end-user to read it. Other instances of small print can be perfectly readable; the x-height of the body type in the following image is about .6mm, and it was photographically reduced from a larger set size to get it down to this (‘A Book is Made’ printed by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich, UK for an exhibition by the Federation of Master Printers in the 1980s). Apologies for the picture quality.

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