{"id":4366,"date":"2018-12-29T02:14:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T02:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2018-12-29T02:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T02:14:37","slug":"two-marvelously-tricky-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/two-marvelously-tricky-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Two marvelously tricky fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sans Forgetica<\/a>\u00a0is a free-to-download font that supposedly helps you “remember your study notes”, designed by typographer Stephen Banham and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Behavioural Business Lab. It’s a remakably hostile mindhack: the letterforms are designed to be difficult to read without losing their legibility, thereby “prompting your brain to engage in deeper processing” and “question the gestalt understanding of type”.<\/p>\n

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Millitext<\/a>\u00a0is a “font” whose glyphs are just one pixel wide. But it’s really a clever exploitation of how subpixels — the individual red, green and blue lights of an LCD display — are triggered by pixels of certain colors. For example, a magenta pixel triggers the red and blue subpixels, leaving the green one dark between them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Both via Boing Boing:<\/p>\n

Sans Forgetica, a font to make you remember<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Millitext<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sans Forgetica\u00a0is a free-to-download font that supposedly helps you “remember your study notes”, designed by typographer Stephen Banham and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Behavioural Business Lab. It’s a remakably hostile mindhack: the letterforms are designed to be difficult to read without losing their legibility, thereby “prompting your brain to engage in deeper processing” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-18q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4369,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}