On the influence of typefaces

A preliminary reading into the influence of type on cognitive function.

Reading

 * "History of Type" (devroye.org) &mdash; an overview by Luc Devroye (McGill University)
 * "Type classifications are useful, but the common ones are not" (kupferschrift.de)
 * "Funky Fonts May Help Students Learn" (livescience.com) &mdash; reporting on a study showing "difficult to read" fonts improve information retention.
 * "Fonts used by car manufacturers can influence distracted driving" (theverge.com) &mdash; reporting on a study showing Eurostile is more distracting than Frutiger.
 * "Convince with Simple Fonts" (neurosciencemarketing.com) &mdash; where it is suggested to "describe [tasks] in a simple, easy to read font".
 * "If It's Hard to Read, It's Hard to Do" (umich.edu) &mdash; "Processing Fluency Affects Effort Prediction and Motivation"; a report by Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz (University of Michigan) on the influence of legibility in an individual's motivation to complete a text-prompted action.
 * "On fonts, mind control, contexts" (refinedrobot.com) &mdash; quotations about the influence of type selections on the human mind.

Resources

 * WhatTheFont (myfonts.com) &mdash; algorithmic search to match text samples to font-families.