Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
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#13> "Students remembered 57 per cent ... written in Sans Forgetica, compared to 50 per cent .... in Ariel"
7% delta retention isn't so much, is it?
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#14I mean, nice and all, but what about some actual tests/reports of it actually being noticeably better at remembering what you have read?
The concept is very nice and interesting, but besides it:
>The science of Sans Forgetica
>Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read than most typefaces – and that’s by design. The 'desirable difficulty' you experience when reading information formatted in Sans Forgetica prompts your brain to engage in deeper processing.
I would like to have something more than a video by the scientists that designed it.
If it wasn't a UNI backed thing, I would have thought that the video was a sales pitch for Kickstarter or similar.
I had some expectations for the .pdf inside the downloadable .zip but basically all there is in it is:
>Learn more about the science behind Sans Forgetica at sansforgetica.rmit
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#15I tweeted about this yesterday, from the article: > "Students remembered 57 per cent ... written in Sans Forgetica, compared to 50 per cent .... in Ariel" 7% delta retention isn't so much, is it?
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#16Interesting that the university's website is not on that TLD but rather https://rmit.edu.au
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#17I tweeted about this yesterday, from the article: > "Students remembered 57 per cent ... written in Sans Forgetica, compared to 50 per cent .... in Ariel" 7% delta retention isn't so much, is it?
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#18I tweeted about this yesterday, from the article: > "Students remembered 57 per cent ... written in Sans Forgetica, compared to 50 per cent .... in Ariel" 7% delta retention isn't so much, is it?
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#20> Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read than most typefaces – and that’s by design. The 'desirable difficulty' you experience when reading information formatted in Sans Forgetica prompts your brain to engage in deeper processing. But does the effectiveness of this hold up over time or will your brain get accustomed to the font after a while such that reading it eventually becomes no different than reading whatever…
Yes, you will get better at reading this font than you were at reading this font initially, but probably you still won't be able to read it as fast as you can read some other font.