Make something a little more difficult to read and your brain will remember it better. Such is the idea behind this new typeface. From the Australian Broadcasting Company:
Sans Forgetica font makes readers remember text by being harder to read
In an age of information overload, it's good to have some memory hacks up your sleeve.
And text in its multitude of applications has become a style destination in its own right.
Now a team of experts have developed a font specifically designed to help you remember things, aptly named Sans Forgetica.
But how can a humble typeface improve your mental processes?
Stephen Banham, a lecturer in typography at RMIT who helped create it, told RN Drive San Forgetica was actually a good font to discuss on the radio because it was designed on a highly conceptual basis.
"Sans Forgetica is a typeface that's been specifically designed with features in it such as back-slanting and little gaps inside the letters," Mr Banham said.
The unexpected elements encourage the reader to take more notice, he said, triggering memory because of the effort required to process the text.
A sample:
Avaliable as a free download here: Sans Forgetica
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