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Sans Forgetica: Memory Boosting Font?!?

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    Sans Forgetica: Memory Boosting Font?!?

    A new font that supposedly increases memory retention by making you focus just a little bit more on the text.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXzSehu5HM

    Last edited by shri; 05-10-2018 at 09:15 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    A new font that supposedly increases memory retention by making you focus just a little bit more on the text.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXzSehu5HM
    That looks like a cool tool to slow reading down. Is that how it works? Slowing the speed of data gathering to stop you skip reading and just getting the gist?

    I find the best way to remember something is to actually learn it in the first place....

    I suspect I'll have read about the research on this font and not just try to glean a possible answer from snippets of news.

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    The link to the RMIT website has a little bit more info.

    They also have a chrome extension which allows you to highlight bits and pieces of text and switch to this font.

    For me, it significantly slows down my "speed reading" and forces me to read, rather than guess.

    Like they say, if you want to learn how to code, type code - don't speed read or watch video tutorials.

    Might be interesting to see how this sort of memory "training"(?) works when you compare students who write notes, as opposed to type notes.


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    And 10/10 for an unforgettable font name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    And 10/10 for an unforgettable font name.
    It is a great font name!!!!!

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    Forgot about this font..

    No clue why I thought we had a longer thread about fonts and font crime on here... ( @SirNotAppearing - did we? Thought you would like this one.. )

    The Verge: Google's latest Roboto variant is a font customizable to its core.

    https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23...gnnship_R84439


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    There's only so much information the general public needs to know about the dark arts of typography.


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    Fonts (and other elements in the PDF) may provide clues into the SCOTUS leak...

    https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/w...eaked-pdf.html