Visible Language is an American journal presenting research and experimentation on the properties of writing systems, particularly typography. Founded in 1967 as The Journal of Typographical Research by Merald Wrolstad, each Visible Language edition is co-edited with a guest editor-author.
A primary tenet of the journal is that reading and writing together form a new, separate, and autonomous language system. The journal has covered the subject of concrete poetry, the Fluxus art movement, painted text, textual criticism, the abstraction of symbols, articulatory synthesis and text, and the evolution of the page from print to on-screen display. Guest editor-authors have included Colin Banks, John Cage, Adrian Frutiger, Dick Higgins, Richard Kostelanetz, Craig Saper, and George Steiner.
The journal is currently edited by Sharon Poggenpohl of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design, with administrative offices at the Rhode Island School of Design.