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Your eyes don't get tired, your blink rate does, and it quits.
means The soreness, dryness, and fatigue that come from staring too long at something — a screen, a page, fine print — without enough breaks.
from A straightforward 19th-century compound of 'eye' plus 'strain,' the same 'strain' you'd use for a pulled muscle — the idea being that eyes, like any overworked body part, could be strained from overuse. It entered common use as close reading, factory inspection, and later electric lighting and screens gave people more reasons to fix their gaze for hours at a time.
- blink rate drop
- screens cut blinking by up to two thirds
- not your eyes
- focusing muscles and dry film, not eyeballs, fatigue
- 20-20-20 rule
- every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away, 20 seconds
- text size myth
- distance and glare matter more than font size