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The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts
By Jon Dron 5 January 2011 @ 7:54pm Comments (3)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/the-benefit-of-ugly-fonts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
Disfluency turns out to be rather good: people seem to learn better from things that are harder to read. Time to rethink those strategies about always making things as easy and clear as possible!
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Comments
Maybe also time to find out whether you're a Comic Sans criminal.
Then there's Cooper Black and Trajan . . .
This is one study that I hope will suffer from the replication effects described in the New Yorker article cited by George . . .