4 | The Golden Ratio: Design's Biggest Myth | Co.Design | business + design - 0 views
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The golden ratio's aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn. Many designers don't use it, and if they do, they vastly discount its importance. There's also no science to really back it up.
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"Strictly speaking, it's impossible for anything in the real-world to fall into the golden ratio, because it's an irrational number," says Keith Devlin, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
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You Don't Really Prefer The Golden Ratio In the real world, people don't necessarily prefer the golden ratio.
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