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The new font that promises to boost your memory
https://www.theage.com.au/education/the-new-font-that-promises-to-boost-your-memory-20181003-p507ju.html
As far as fonts go, this one breaks every rule. It slants backwards, there are confusing gaps in every letter and its difficult to read. But the aptly-named Sans Forgetica has a major advantage: its believed to improve peoples memories.
In a world first, researchers from RMIT University have designed a font to help people retain information.
Released as tens of thousands of students start studying for their Year 12 exams, the typeface draws from an unusual mix of psychology and typography. RMIT typography lecturer Stephen Banham, who was part of the three person team that created Sans Forgetica, said the font is a useful study tool.
It's ideal for highlighting important facts that might need to be recalled during an exam, he said, such as dates, historical events and quotes.
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Direct download font here: http://sansforgetica.rmit/
SkipG
(70 posts)so he remembers what he says from one day to the next.
BumRushDaShow
(129,448 posts)And yes, that'll make your brain work because one of the popular examples of "optical illusions" in psychology, always describes how the brain insists on completing an image that has gap so you can quickly identify it and move on. So if you have a line curved into a circular shape where the 2 ends don't quite connect, the brain will automatically label the object a "circle" by completing the gap for you - even if that might not really be a correct answer to what you are looking at.
Edit to add - it's like trying to read faded dot-matrix printed text.
procon
(15,805 posts)I'm thinking maybe it might help my brother, but if it doesn't work like that I don't want to make him feel bad.
phylny
(8,386 posts)with dyslexia. Google and you'll find a few
procon
(15,805 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)people, specifically. Here's a resource:
https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/the-best-fonts-for-dyslexia/