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It is a mistake to paint all writers with the same brush. To the degree that 'guardrails' are needed, they're not needed by all writers for the reasons the auth
by cgriswald 5y ago
It is a mistake to paint all writers with the same brush. To the degree that 'guardrails' are needed, they're not needed by all writers for the reasons the author needs them. Likewise, not all writers are affected by choice of writing-font in the same way or to the same degree. The way in which the GP is affected is to be overwhelmed by choice and the degree to which this occurs is high. We have no reasons to believe which particular font iA Writer uses has any effect on GP at all. This is not the case for the article's author, who claims to be strongly affected by font choice.
Even if it could be proven that all writers are subtly affected by choice of writing-font, using the same font for everything all the time might dampen this effect to the degree that such a font is a blank slate as far as the mind is concerned.
This certainly seems to be the case for me. I find many fonts off-putting when writing (poetry, prose, or code) to the degree that they break my focus; but otherwise they don't really seem to influence me. However, I typically use only a handful of 'not ugly' fonts and don't really 'see' these fonts at all. The degree to which they might influence my writing is tiny, at best. No one could look at two pieces of my writing and guess which font I used or even if I used a different font between them.
I think, likely, the way in which people write has a huge influence on how affected they are about any particular variable, including fonts. I write in a way that feels like I'm constructing a building; structure first, then decoration. Others make paintings. Still others, who knows. It is a strong claim to make that all these writers are thinking, feeling, and experiencing the same thing with regard to any particular variable.