On Sans Forgetica, a new font to aid memory retention

The Goldberry Books Podcast

English - March 08, 2019 18:40 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 66 ratings
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Welcome to Libromania, a podcast for the book-obsessed from the Close Reads Podcast Network. Each week David Kern will be chatting with authors, biographers, designers, collectors, critics and other people who help make book's so worthy of our attention.

In this episode, David chats with renowned typographer, Stephen Banham, about his work on a new font called Sans Forgetica, which was designed in association with RMIT in Australia, in hopes of helping students improve memory retention.They discuss the art of typography, the goals behind the font, how it was conceived, and much more.

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