Remember What You Read With This Font
We are all used to skipping boring parts of a reading assignment or a web article. But when researchers at RMIT University in Australia typed information in strange, hard-to-read typefaces, they found that people were more likely to remember what they read .
Their experiments show that there is a sweet spot: if a font is too chaotic, it becomes difficult to read. So they settled on small tweaks: breaks in the lines of the letters, as well as a slight backward tilt (the opposite direction as the bevel in the more familiar italics).
The resulting font is called Sans Forgetica and you can download it here . The researchers also created a Chrome extension that will display any web page in Sans Forgetica that makes learning easier. But don’t use it everywhere: they suspect that if we get too used to reading in Sans Forgetica, its memory-boosting effect will disappear.