I could not agree more with this article. Human brains are hard-wired to infer 3D structure from shading. Taking away shading means taking away 3D structure, me

I could not agree more with this article. Human brains are hard-wired to infer 3D structure from shading. Taking away shading means taking away 3D structure, means taking away one of the most important visual cues there is to help humans grasp interfaces. Also, coming from all the print media, human brains are conditioned to detect and separate important/immediate from un-important/less immediate content by looking at overall page structure and relative weights. Deciding against bold or large fonts for the looks takes that away too. Finally there is a ton of research pointing to the fact that fonts with a healthy amount of thickness is more easy to read than thin fonts. The debate is still on about serifed fonts I guess but using Light Helvetica for kind of everything quite certainly is a step in the wrong direction.