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IMO and experience said articles statement is CRAP.
The typographers/printers have worked more and more methods throughout the centuries to make text more fluently readable and what was good in print is now said to be evil in digital?
Extremely bad typeset or hard to read glyphs tire. So they can hardly be helpful in perception.
I even remember I came across a very "shaky" text design by purpose (it was RPG background description) done so in order to transport a certain discomfort to the reader; the glyphs (anong other inconveniences) were minimally not straight, as if a manually typset letter matrix would have been shaken before printing.
The perception was (for me) like reading while being driven over a cobbled street - imagine nausea w/o moving...
Even being no historian I came across hard(er)-to read samples as Fraktur, Sütterlin, or Uncial (here you even lack capitals, spacing and interpunction - the text is a continuous stream of glyphs) Belive me it doesn't help neither in perception, nor memorizing.
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