WIRED ScienceCan't Remember What You Read? Blame Font, Not Forgetfulness
Published Dec 19, 2018, 7:12 AM
Remember all those classics you devoured in comp-lit class? Neither do we. Research shows that we retain an embarrassingly small sliver of what we read. In an effort to help college students boost that percentage, a team made up of a designer, a psychologist, and a behavioral economist at Australia’s RMIT University recently introduced a new typeface, Sans Forgetica, that uses clever tricks to lodge information in your brain.
