hard to read fonts and the ipad
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Research from Princeton University has shown that digital material on iPads written in hard to read fonts has far greater memory retention and comprehension.
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Why
Researchers believe the greater the visual challenge as far as word recognition and sentence flow, the more effort it takes for our brains to comprehend and this effort improves memory retention.
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How bigis the impact
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Students were found to have a 14% improvement in comprehension and recall when they were used.
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Comic Sans and Itaet are considered harder to read, while fonts like Times New Roman and Helvetica are considered easier to read.
What are the hard andto read
fonts easy to
remember?
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Using hard to read fonts in headings, feature quotes in documents and key takeaways are all good techniques to use.
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ReferencesABC (2011), Breakfast: “What’s that font again? E-books, fonts and memory linked”Available: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2011/3230281.htm
BBC (2011), “Making things hard to read ‘can boost learning’”Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11573666
The New York Times (2011), The Opinion Pages: “Does the Brain Like E-Books?”Available: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/
The Daily Princetonian (2011), “Diemand-Yauman ’10 authors font study”Available: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/10/29/26748/
Princeton University (2011), “WWS Study Finds Making Material Harder to Learn Can Improve Long-term Learning and Retention” Available: http://wws.princeton.edu/news/DOppenheimer_Font/
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