Your look at how fonts can mess with our minds highlighted the fuss over Comic Sans being used in a presentation announcing the possible discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN (22/29 December, p 68). In a technical context, lack of precision can easily lead to misunderstanding or even danger. Comic Sans is one of the few fonts that clearly distinguish between capital "I", lower case "l", and the number "1". Maybe Comic Sans is not such a bad choice for scientists after all.
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