Desirable Difficulty

Sans Forgetica

This piece in The Guardian is short and amusing.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/04/font-of-all-knowledge-researchers-develop-typeface-they-say-can-boost-memory

The article allows you to toggle to display in the Sans Forgetica font —
it’s an experience you might not want to remember : )

[Typography lecturer Stephen] Banham, who has created about 20 fonts, said the typeface would be best used for short texts.

“God no, you wouldn’t want novels printed in it, it would probably induce a headache,” he said.

And so for day 2674
09.04.2014