Researchers from Australia's RMIT University have created a font which they say could help you to retain more data. Sans Forgetica is the result of work involving typographic design specialists and psychologists, and it has been designed specifically to make it easier to remember written information. The font has purposefully been made slightly difficult to read, using a reverse slant and gaps in letters to exploit the "desirable difficulty" as a memory aid. Dr Janneke Blijlevens, founding member of the RMIT Behavioural Business Lab, explains that the problem with many fonts is that they are so similar to each other…
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