Many individuals believe that having an easy time with learning new material ultimately means that it was a successful learning experience. However, in his article Jonah Lehrer argues this concept by suggesting that material that is harder to learn is actually far more beneficial by improving long term learning and retention. After conducting a study with the effects of different fonts on the same classroom material, researches found that those who were taught with the disfluent fonts actually had a far better retention of the material. A scientist wrote after gathering the results, "This study demonstrated that student retention of material across a wide range of subjects (science and humanities classes) and difficulty levels (regular, Honors and Advanced Placement) can be significantly improved in naturalistic settings by presenting reading material in a format that is slightly harder to read". With this new discovery, we now know that we possess the ability to improve both the performance and educations of students.
In the video, "The Evolution of Fonts," Ben Barrett-Forrest tells the audience about the history of typography using an clip that showed what each individual font looked like. He spoke of how each type of font came about and what they are mainly used for, like posters or titles for example. The world of communication was revolutionize first when blackletter was created, the first ever typeface. From there on out new styles and sizes of fonts sprouted and continued to become more and more diverse. Letters became more manageable to read and there were fonts that appealed to everyone. Finally, when the computer was created, thousands of typefaces surfaced and technology changed typography as we knew it. Overall, Barrett-Forrest emphasizes the idea that fonts are timeless and always changing.
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