Fonts

[Berzelius]

There was an interesting article in last week's New Scientist on fonts. Essentially, the claim was made that having to read something in a more difficult font improved the retention of the material being read. A suggested reason was that:

When reading is easy, we skip the individual letters and instead turn the task over to the section of the brain devoted to pattern recognition. But when we trip over a word, it forces the brain to engage a different processing area: the dorsal parietal cortex, where the letter-by-letter reading mechanism is based.

So, there you are. Change the font on your eReader to Gothic and become a genius.

[cromag]

Comic Sans FTW!

[Berzelius]

Originally Posted by cromag

Comic Sans FTW!

It would seem that the announcement on the Higgs boson was done using this font. It did provoke some complaints.

[Freeshadow]

I remember people having real trouble reading court decisions of the german Reichsgericht.
(no new typesetting - the old pages in Fraktur)
For all those still believing typesetting is superfluous deco not having influence on legibility. Try something like that. Then you might finally understand that typography is really! more important than hyperinteractivity in ebooks

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Berzelius

There was an interesting article in last week's New Scientist on fonts. Essentially, the claim was made that having to read something in a more difficult font improved the retention of the material being read. A suggested reason was that:

When reading is easy, we skip the individual letters and instead turn the task over to the section of the brain devoted to pattern recognition. But when we trip over a word, it forces the brain to engage a different processing area: the dorsal parietal cortex, where the letter-by-letter reading mechanism is based.

So, there you are. Change the font on your eReader to Gothic and become a genius.

If this is true then making each letter a different font would make us all have Eidetic Memory.
Apache

[cromag]

Originally Posted by Apache

If this is true then making each letter a different font would make us all have Eidetic Memory.
Apache

It is possible to make a challenge insurmountable.

[VaultBoy]

Originally Posted by cromag

Comic Sans FTW!

http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=07052007