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by rasulkireev 1437 days ago
For me, it was a little surprising that there was no effect at all. For whatever reason it felt like it ought to have an impact.

However, if I think about it, reading has been done for thousands of years and by now something like that would have prevailed if it was effective.

Anyway, we need more experiments like this. I bet there are a ton of things out there that we think make out lives better, but in reality don't do a thing.

1 comments

thanks rasul!

on an individual basis, there is some evidence that reading with your "best" font may have a meaningful impact on reading speed with no loss of comprehension. but you could probably unlock these gains by simply switching from, say, arial to garamond (i made that up for illustrative purposes), rather than implementing this complex font style.