Can't Remember What You Read? Blame the Font, Not Forgetfulness
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REMEMBER ALL THOSE classics you devoured in comp-lit class? Neither do we. Research shows that we retain an embarrassingly small sliver of what we read. In an effort to help college students boost that percentage, a team made up of a designer, a psychologist, and a behavioral economist at Australia’s RMIT University recently introduced a new typeface, Sans Forgetica, that uses clever tricks to lodge information in your brain. The font-makers drew on the psychological theory of “desirable difficulty”—that is, we learn better when we actively overcome an obstruction.
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So, anyone who knows me, or reads my posts over a period of time will know that I often bemoan how bad my memory has become. So this sounds very attractive to me. However I am sceptical. Plus even if it works the experience of reading becomes less pleasurable.
The font is downloadable from
here. See a couple of screenshots from my Kobo attached. Would you read the first one?
Actually it reminds me of an incident in the pilot of the sitcom "Better Off Ted"
They make a chair deliberately uncomfortable - it makes you more productive, until it drives you crazy!