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by coldtea 2671 days ago
>Lines that make up characters in a font don't have any semantic meaning related to the words.

Err, actually they do. If not the line itself, the font's overall design does. A font can look casual, another official, fun, etc.

In fact this very post uses the "Humor Sans" font for the graphs for exactly this very reason. To make labels appear more casual.