Can't Remember What You Read? Blame Font, Not Forgetfulness

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 7:12 a.m.

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\u2019s RMIT University recently introduced a new typeface, Sans Forgetica, that uses clever tricks to lodge information in your brain.