A collage of imagery sits lightly atop a green background. What’s in the foreground, you ask? Well, it’s a simple title for the journal Visible Language, for volume 59, number 2, published August 2025.

Published: 2025-08-15

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Research Article

A streetsign for an intersection. If you are Chinese, you might be able to read the sign and attain a sense of place. Otherwise and regardless, the sign is likely to be familiar, as there are apparently standards of some sort for street (or highway) signage.

The Role of Text Alignment on Response Speed and Accuracy When Reading Chinese-English Bilingual Traffic Signs

Yuchan Zhang, Jeanne-Louise Moys, Matthew Lickiss

130-152

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A sequence of diagrams largely eschews text in favor of imagery. A title, “3 week probation,” appears above a picture of one man with a clipboard watching another man pick fruits from a tree, with an image of a desktop calendar highlighting three weeks’ worth of Monday through Friday sequences. Two expanded sequences emerge from the picker’s position, a red and green one. The red one appears to who a low amount of fruit picked, with unhappy people; the green one is happier, with more fruits pickedAn example extract of a visual contract by Creative Contracts, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2016, for Indigo Fruit (Pty) Ltd, a farming business in Limpopo that grows and supplies Clemengold fruit.

Breaking Images: A Method for Improving Design Students’ Visual Literacy

Dr Stuart Medley, Dr Hanadi Haddad

153-175

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The same textual output from a large language model is presented eight times. Each presentation highlights a few portions of the text and utilizes a form of highlighting to indicate uncertain assertions. These highlights vary in color and form.

Addressing Uncertainty in LLM Outputs for Trust Calibration Through Visualization and User Interface Design

Helen Armstrong, Ashley Lynne Anderson, Rebecca Planchart, Kweku Baidoo, Matthew Peterson

176-217

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Invited Article

Book cover design from the Murty Classical Library of India, from a list of title published from 2015 to 2025. The cover is austere, in a burgundy color with classic serif typography, centered, classically, of course.

Research-Led Pluralist Typographic Practices: Case Studies from South Asia

Rathna Ramanathan

109-129

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Dispatches from Industry

A user interface panel displays options for retouching, as in for an image. Brush size appears with a slider, and multiple features can be activated, like spot healing brush and healing brush.

A Seat at the Table: Designing for AI with Strategy, Vision, and Collaboration

Syashi Gupta

218-231

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Title page for an article with standard journal typesetting.

The Changing Definition of Designers in the Age of Generative AI

Will Hall

232-240

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Google’s AI Overview preview appears above traditional results and features bold text and highlighting (screenshot captured February 25, 2025). The screenshot reads “Search Labs, AI Overview” above the following message: “When approaching AI integration, designers should focus on identifying specific areas where…,” and it continues. This is not important information, being the summary from a prompt as demonstration alone.

The Human Touch(point): Recommendations for Thoughtful AI Feature Design

Sierra Shell

241-251

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Editorial

Title page for an article with standard journal typesetting.

Reflecting on the August 2025 Issue — Considerations Nowadays and Implications For

Matthew Peterson

iv-xii

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