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Ugly fonts improve recall? - rich_f - 2011-01-18 Neat, clean fonts turn off your brain, making things harder to remember, according to a study here: http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Diemand-Yauman_Oppenheimer_2010.pdf and messier, harder-to-read fonts improve recall. Mass media version here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347058/Why-ugly-fonts-messy-handwriting-make-easier-remember-youve-read.html TL;DR here: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/17/princeton-study-shows-that-easy-fonts-make-things-harder-to-reme/ Disfluency is the new buzzword. Time to figure out how to make my deck more "disfluent." Ugly fonts improve recall? - Ryuujin27 - 2011-01-18 Anyone else find it ironic/amusing that the report is written in a neat, clean font? Ugly fonts improve recall? - rich_f - 2011-01-18 To save time searching for it, here's the Japanese Unicode Fonts site URL: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html Time for me to look for something "handwriting-ey." Maybe it's time to go back to YoZFont. Ugly fonts improve recall? - Bokusenou - 2011-01-19 Hmm..I wonder if I should switch everything in Japanese on my computer to default to Onryou now... @rich_f http://www.fontfontfont.com has a lot more selection than Wazu Japan's page, in case you don't find something there. Ugly fonts improve recall? - rich_f - 2011-01-19 @Bokusenou That's a neat site. For now, I'm sticking with YOzFont, which you can find from the wazu site. It's sort of like Comic Sans for Japanese. The only downside is that it doesn't render too well in Win7 in Anki-- it's a little jagged. But then again, that probably adds to the disfluency. Ugly fonts improve recall? - nest0r - 2011-01-19 Ha! Too slow, richu_efu-san: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=7036 Ugly fonts improve recall? - icamonkey - 2011-02-03 Thanks from a Windows 7 user. This really helps. YOzFont is re-energizing my reviews. Ugly fonts improve recall? - jettyke - 2011-03-08 Whatever it is, can someone on this forum clarify, that yes, indeed, it does improve recall, from personal experience? OR that it doesn't Ugly fonts improve recall? - rrrrrray - 2011-03-08 A very interesting paper. Thanks for sharing. Ugly fonts improve recall? - ta12121 - 2011-03-08 I currently have a "traditional" font for my anki reps, both vocab+sentence deck. It really makes strong memories as I now start reading traditional calligraphy style fonts and so on