Cynical. Generally speaking, articles with images and color are more interesting to random browsers. Even variable width fonts are more interesting than fixed w

Cynical. Generally speaking, articles with images and color are more interesting to random browsers. Even variable width fonts are more interesting than fixed width fonts. Given a HTML page using the default serif font that shows a picture of you and a cat and talks a little about your research, or a plain text file using the default fixed width font that talks a little about your research and says "in the menu below, clyde.jpg is a photo of my cat", then most people are going to prefer the first option.