When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Tetra Images via Getty Images What is the Golden Ratio? We'll this guide aims to explain ...

The real award is that you competed. The golden ratio is famous, but maybe more so as an image of a nautilus shell with a rectangle drawn around it than as the actual idea of the ratio it embodies: “A ...

The golden ratio is obtained by looking for a particular rectangle. Let us imagine a rectangle of length b and width a. Inside this rectangle, we draw a square (an x a). We are left with a rectangle ...

The Golden Ratio might be design’s biggest myth, but that’s not to say that it’s useless. Aesthetics aside, the Fibonacci Sequence upon which the Golden Ratio is based is a very useful formula for ...