Wouldn’t it be nice to trick our brain into remembering something just by changing the font?
Well, researchers say they have developed such a thing!
(This would have been nice in college…)
Here it is. Sans Forgetica.
Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia have developed an entirely new font designed “using the principles of cognitive psychology” to help you better remember your study notes. The font is a sans serif style typeface, with two unusual features: It slants slightly left, which is a rarely used design principle in typography, and it’s full of holes.
Those holes have a purpose though. They make Sans Forgetica harder to read, tricking your brain into using “deeper cognitive processing” and promoting better memory retention. The psychological learning principle is known as “desirable difficulty” and that obstruction — the holes — mean you dwell on each word just a little bit longer. (
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