Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall (2012)

Though it didn't hit Harvard Business Review until 2012, the work was actually done in 2010. The following has a few more details, but not many.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S28/82/93O80/

Like the HBR article, the Economist article also left out too many details:

http://www.economist.com/node/17248892?story_id=17248892&...

If the details are correct, then the experiment design seems faulty.