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> Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read than most typefaces – and that’s by design. The 'desirable difficulty' you experience when reading information format
by codetrotter 8y ago
> 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?
- adrianmonk 8y agoI don't think it's true that all fonts eventually approach the same level of easy readability. 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.
- yorwba 8y agoThis font has easily distinguishable glyphs for all letters. Some fonts make "Ill" looks like ||| and it's still possible to read most texts written in such fonts easily. Considering that it's possible to learn to read a completely different alphabet, I'm not convinced that there's anything to font legibility besides familiarity, so long as all glyphs are distinguishable.
- ClassyJacket 8y agoI 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.
- DonHopkins 8y ago¡pɐǝɹ oʇ ɹǝpɹɐɥ uǝʌǝ ǝɹɐ sʇuoɟ pǝʇɐʇoɹ ʇnq
- komali2 8y agoWhat is this black magic
- toast0 8y agoUnicode has a lot of characters that look like latin characters upside down: ƃop ʎzɐʃ ǝɥʇ ɹǝʌo sdɯnɾ xoɟ uʍoɹq ʞɔınb ǝɥʇ I used the converter I found here: https://www.fileformat.info/convert/text/upside-down.htm https://www.fileformat.info/convert/text/upside-down.htm
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agobɘɿoɿɿim ƚuodɒ ƚɒʜw ,ɔiǫɒm ʞɔɒld ƨi nwob ɘbiƨqu ʞniʜƚ uoy ʇI 𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝓫𝓮 𝓪𝓫𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨
- komali2 8y agohaha, second line doesn't work on my android phone! works on chrome + ubuntu though, apparently
- cmroanirgo 8y agoI think you've just revealed the typeface for my blog - I needed something quirky!
- make3 8y agoexactly. after about 10 seconds, I had no difficulty reading it at all, just as if it was a regular font. I'm extremely skeptical of this
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoThat may not matter if it's based on how many neurons are firing to read it as though a regular font. If it needs more CPU usage maybe the reinforcement is stronger. I'd love to see some studies on the effect to give something a little more concrete than a pretty graph.
- r00fus 8y ago> But does the effectiveness of this hold up over time or will your brain get accustomed to the font after a while I would posit that this might be true if everything was in sans forgetica, but since only your notes should be in that font, then it will likely retain it's utility over time. Is the goal that you type these notes in SF and hope the font trains you to remember? There was a scene in the video where someone just "switched" the notes to SF en-masse... seems like that'd be not so useful.
- blechinger 8y agoI write notes to re-explain the material in my own words and test my understanding. Then, once I'm sure I've got it right, I read the notes and use them as reference. Writing in a normal font and then switching to Sans Forgetica to read/study the notes would be my use-case.
- jxy 8y agoOne trick I have learned when I started writing articles on a computer, and I am still using it, is that always change to an unfamiliar font face when proofreading. I will try to use this font for proofreading and see how it compares to my current favorite, Luminari.
- gdsdfe 8y agoIt doesn't help you read but it does help you remember, so if you get better at reading it doesn't mean you'll forget easily ... Or at least that's what I think they claim.
- skookumchuck 8y agoI bombed exams as a freshman because my notes were too hard to read. Learning to write legibly greatly improved my test results.