Typeface · Sans-serif
Sans forgetica
Sans forgetica is a variation of a sans-serif typeface, claimed to assist students in retaining the information which they read.
About Sans forgetica
Sans forgetica is a variation of a sans-serif typeface, claimed to assist students in retaining the information which they read. Two years after its release and having received a great deal of publicity, the first peer-reviewed study demonstrated that Sans Forgetica was not effective for enhancing memory. Back-slanted and with gaps in the letter forms, the typeface is designed to reduce legibility; it adds reading complexity to learning tasks based on the psychological principle known as desirable difficulty. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.
From the Wikipedia article “Sans forgetica”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Sans forgetica in a book
Sans-serif faces work well for headings, captions, children's books and modern nonfiction. For long-form body text in print, most designers still prefer a serif.
Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q57660658 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).