Psychology and design researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne created a font called Sans Forgetica, which was designed to boost information retention for readers. It’s based on a theory ...

SIMON: This font has letters that look like they're broken up, almost like your pen's running out of ink. BANHAM: (Laughter) That's a very interesting way to describe it.

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The Sans Forgetica font has received much press coverage, after researchers in Australia claimed they had designed a new font that would boost memory by making information that appeared in the new ...

Monotype Imaging has itself leaned into the anti-Comic Sans fervor. On April Fools Day in 2011, the company announced plans to roll out a brand-new version of the reviled font, called Comic Sans Pro.

To find the best font for boosting memory, 400 students were exposed to several different fonts. Sans Forgetica showed the biggest leap in remembering.