Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
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Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
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Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#2Australian news articles about it (may be behind paywall / geo block):
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/sans-forgetica-rmi...
https://www.theage.com.au/education/the-new-font-that-promis...
https://mumbrella.com.au/naked-creates-font-for-rmit-which-i...
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#3That font seems quite legible actually. The letters are all quite distinct and apart from the gaps and backward-slant, follow proper typographical conventions.
I would have made the letters monospaced at least (no kerning either), and would have used base letter shapes that look much more alike (e.g., the bowls of the d, a, q, and c should be the same, because slight differences in them help you identify letters more readily, which is precisely what proper fonts do).
Also, does that university actually own their own top-level domain? Those don't come cheap do they?
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#4This is cool. Shame most of my study notes are equation-heavy.
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#5That font seems quite legible actually. The letters are all quite distinct and apart from the gaps and backward-slant, follow proper typographical conventions. I would have made the letters monospaced at least (no kerning either), and would have used base letter shapes that look much more alike (e.g., the bowls of the d, a, q, and c should be the same, because slight differences in them help you identify letters more…
Agreed. Typed some quasi-looking-Python in their demo. It was not hard to “read” at all
A mono space version, with all the appropriate symbols, would be interesting to try out as a daily coding font.
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#6That font seems quite legible actually. The letters are all quite distinct and apart from the gaps and backward-slant, follow proper typographical conventions. I would have made the letters monospaced at least (no kerning either), and would have used base letter shapes that look much more alike (e.g., the bowls of the d, a, q, and c should be the same, because slight differences in them help you identify letters more…
Re: top-level domain, there's a good number of universities on the list. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
It's about $200k.
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#7Is Cyrillic support planned?
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#8> 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 font you used to use before?
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#9Contender for a considerably better dyslexia font.
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#10I thought it was something to do with forging essays or something similar as I kept reading it as Forge-tica.
I always thought the use of study notes was just in writing them to stimulate memory, not actually reading them (for me at least).