The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Behavior Lab has designed a typeface called Sans Forgetica. Its purpose is very clear-to strengthen people's memory of the text through a special design based on cognitive psychology, and to make memory retention more durable.
This font is uniformly inclined to the left at 8 degrees (anti-slant), and the strokes are deleted at the key position of each character. Readers who have always read by recognizing the shape of letters will need to complete it through imagination.
A large block of Sans Forgetica text looks like an incomplete piece of text, and the reader needs to read longer to get the information. This is exactly what the designers are aiming for, and the main theory they rely on is "desirable difficulty".
The key words of beneficial difficulty are "difficult" and "worthy", which refers to inserting a barrier in a learning task, making it require more effort to complete, these Paying will slow down the early learning progress, but its long-term benefits must be far better than completing other simple tasks.
When reading text in this font, the brain will naturally complete the letter prototype, which is equivalent to investing more time and brainpower to process incomplete information, and the brain is involved Deeper cognitive processes, while slowing down reading, also trigger memory.
According to the lab's founder, Dr. Jo Peryman, a behavioral economist, typical fonts, such as Arial, Times, and Helvetia, are so common that people don't create any memory traces in their brains at first glance. (memory trace); but for some fonts that are too special, the brain cannot perform deep processing, so there will be no memory trace. Sans Forgetica sits somewhere in between, "breaking just enough rules to leave a mark on the brain".
The lab, in collaboration with Stephen Banham, lecturer in typography at the RMIT School of Design, designed three typefaces for testing, each more radical than the previous, namely 'void', 'void' and 'reverse'. slant", "gap, reverse slant, and asymmetry" - which breaks two key design principles, that is, the use of reverse slant (our common italics are slanted to the right, fonts that slant to the left are only used on maps Mark the river) and the space in the middle of the letter. They tested more than 100 students with three fonts and determined that the one that was the most memorable ("Gap and Slant") took longer, but not so unintelligible.
A test with 400 people proved that the font does help memorize the text slightly - students who learned the Sans Forgetica and Arial texts recalled 57% and 50% of the text respectively.
It was originally designed to help students through exam week, so it's free for everyone to download. Anyone can go to RMIT's website to convert their notes, download fonts or Chrome browser plugins. It can also be used for learning foreign languages and can also help the elderly to strengthen memory. "But it's best not to use this font to print novels, or you will have a headache."
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