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Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by ubittibu »

DonHopkins wrote: post #86
gojomo wrote: post #46

I can't find it at the moment, but the last time I looked, attempted replications of an early "illegibility improves recall" study failed. (IIRC, that didn't use a custom font, but rather some de-contrasting/visual-noise applied.) I see no cited papers here, just the claim, in the video, that "over 100 students" were used in testing to pick this font from several candidates. I'm doubtful of any long-term value here.…

Who can possibly forget the font that Mike Koss's "The Terminal" Apple ][ terminal emulator used to get 32 lines of 70 characters each in HIRES graphics mode in 1981? It's the most difficult to read font I've ever used regularly! (Don't try using it on a color TV, though.) https://web.archive.org/web/20120206091422/http://mckoss.com... >Tiny (3x5) Font >Created for the Apple II program The Terminal. Copyright (c) 198…

Interesting. Too bad the link to download the font is not working.

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by cmroanirgo »

DonHopkins wrote: post #64
ClassyJacket wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Maybe this effect will only work if you rotate fonts every so often to one you're not familiar with. If this effect works at all.

¡pɐǝɹ oʇ ɹǝpɹɐɥ uǝʌǝ ǝɹɐ sʇuoɟ pǝʇɐʇoɹ ʇnq

I think you've just revealed the typeface for my blog - I needed something quirky!

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by Bakary »

KirinDave wrote: post #153
rtkwe wrote: post #152

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What's that shorthand?

It's Shavian (·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯) which was linked here a little while ago. It's a phonetic english alphabet (so it's not shorthand, but often is shorter) with pretty good font support and a unicode allocation. The Shavian Reddit has links to a Linux keymap and more details if you'd like it. I used Memrise's Shavian course to memorize it in about a week, and I've been reading and writing ever since. It's delightful for task…

What do you think of Quikscript?

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by gymshoes »

irisli wrote: post #92

It would've been nice to have the whole page to be in the Sans Forgetica font to see it in action. I tried copy-pasting the whole website into the "Type something you want to remember" box near the bottom. Unfortunately, it's a and the original font styling got copied inside too. :|

They have a chrome extension that does this.

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by Camillo »

jaclaz wrote: post #162
Camillo wrote: post #142

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Pinguis isn't even a noun, is it? I think it's an adjective.

Pinguis can be a name alright besides an adjective, but it is more "fat": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pinguis&la=la&ca... I provided the link to google books to the Liber fundamentorum pharmacologia only to show that oleum serpentis was actually an ancient remedy, of course the Latin of a book translated from medieval Persian might be not exactly Cicero, still it should be much better than any transla…

The link only shows pinguis as an adjective or adverb. I don't see any reference to it being a noun on that page.

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by lostatseajoshua »

kradroy wrote: post #135
michaelkeenan wrote: post #125

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I just checked the review with Sci-Hub, and you are correct. I was much too hasty. The memory effect is still plausible, they write: > "Although the more general prevalence of “desirable difficulties” (Bjork, 1994) is beyond the scope of this article, several research groups have found that disfluent fonts improve performance on memory tasks (Cotton et al, 2014, Diemand-Yauman, Oppenheimer, & Vaughan, 2011; French et…

What I'm puzzled by is their need for creating a new font and marketing it. All prior studies finding this improved recall effect used already available fonts in the experiments. I can't find any license for Sans Forgetica, so I assume it is free to use. Maybe exposure/fame for the lab?

I reached out to them directly (RMIT) about the license and they responded that is not available for commercial use.

“Sans Forgetica is designed for non-commercial use only. It is bound by a creative commons, non-commercial, attributed (CCBYNC) license.”

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by lostatseajoshua »

edent wrote: post #11

Anyone know what the licence is for the font? It is free to download, but doesn't come with anything explaining usage and distribution restrictions.

I reached out to them directly (RMIT) about the license and they responded that is not available for commercial use.

“Sans Forgetica is designed for non-commercial use only. It is bound by a creative commons, non-commercial, attributed (CCBYNC) license.”

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by edent »

lostatseajoshua wrote: post #177
edent wrote: post #11

Anyone know what the licence is for the font? It is free to download, but doesn't come with anything explaining usage and distribution restrictions.

I reached out to them directly (RMIT) about the license and they responded that is not available for commercial use. “Sans Forgetica is designed for non-commercial use only. It is bound by a creative commons, non-commercial, attributed (CCBYNC) license.”

Thanks!

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by KirinDave »

Bakary wrote: post #173
KirinDave wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Shavian (·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯) which was linked here a little while ago. It's a phonetic english alphabet (so it's not shorthand, but often is shorter) with pretty good font support and a unicode allocation. The Shavian Reddit has links to a Linux keymap and more details if you'd like it. I used Memrise's Shavian course to memorize it in about a week, and I've been reading and writing ever since. It's delightful for task…

What do you think of Quikscript?

Uh, I like it. I'm considering writing a unicode extension proposal for it. I actually do all my task journaling in Shavian and I find it a lot more tedious to write than Quickscript. Quickscript also has more useful loan-consonants (and we could extend the spec easily to grab a few more, since sounds like ñ are much more common in English than in Shaw's day).

So I like it, but I use Shavian mostly because it's well supported. I'm in the camp that says physical writing is dead, so I wnat to get quick/read into Unicode formally.

Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

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Post by jaclaz »

Camillo wrote: post #175
jaclaz wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinguis can be a name alright besides an adjective, but it is more "fat": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pinguis&la=la&ca... I provided the link to google books to the Liber fundamentorum pharmacologia only to show that oleum serpentis was actually an ancient remedy, of course the Latin of a book translated from medieval Persian might be not exactly Cicero, still it should be much better than any transla…

The link only shows pinguis as an adjective or adverb. I don't see any reference to it being a noun on that page.

>Subst.: pingue , is, n., fat, grease, Plin. 11, 37, 85, § 212; Verg. G. 3, 124: “taurorum, leonum ac pantherarum pinguia,” Plin. 28, 9, 38, § 144: “comedite pinguia,” Vulg. 2 Esd. 8, 10.—

"Comedite pinguia" may be not "classic" latin, still it is known enough:

https://books.google.it/books?id=VOmwZ1AwFsMC&printsec=front...

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