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How to manipulate people with font type?
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoOriginal, and far more meaningful and accurate, title: A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do.
- cduan 16y agoThe current title ("How to manipulate people with font type") relays two pieces of information about the article: that it is about fonts, and that it is about psychology (manipulation of people). The original article title does neither, at least to one who has not yet read the article--it could be about those inspirational posters, for all I know. Though perhaps the title changed between our comments? I cannot tell.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoPsychology is "manipulation of people"? Really. I didn't know that.
- philh 16y agoNo, but manipulation of people is largely applied psychology.
- JarekS 16y agoFor the first 20 minutes this post had different title (much closer to the original one). No one has voted. I thought of a little experiment and put on much more provocative title - and what do you know! It ended up on the main page few minutes later...
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoI see. So it's basically "how to manipulate Hacker News readers by using a hyped up headline"?
- rbritton 16y agoI would be far more interested to know how similarly "easy-to-read" typefaces fared. Does an androgynous typeface like Helvetica have a different result than one more aligned with a gender? Does one with sharp aggressive serifs like the Copperplate family cause a different reaction than the smoother Garamond?
- schwit 16y agoHow about telling us what font type is best for various writing situations.