Tortoiseshell glasses, tweed, cursive writing and cafes and libraries ... As one of the more prominent aesthetics in the academia subculture, light academia focuses on positivity, light, and ...

It’s all about cultivating your intellect—activities like reading and writing are seen as ... In contrast with dark academia, its sister aesthetic, light academia, is a much airier aesthetic.

In Tumblr’s 2021 Year in Review, dark academia was the second-most popular aesthetic on the site, and light academia was the third-most popular. Romantic academia and chaotic academia also ...

Brennan drew similarities between the light-academia aesthetic and cottagecore, which is also rooted in small pleasures — though not exclusively deriving from education. As such, light academia ...

another Internet-famous aesthetic has bubbled up to the top, threatening to replace all things regenycore, balletcore, and cottagecore in my wardrobe. Light academia continues to trend among ...

To talk, as I am here, about the aesthetic pleasures of scholarly writing is surely a fool’s game. After all, we know that much academic writing is at best intelligible and at worst unreadable. To ...

the light-academia aesthetic. As the name indicates, this trend is a gentler take on dark academia, with a crop of softer colours — think cream, brown, beige, and white — in lighter fabrics.