[nchlswu]

> "Science", some amorphous entity quite disconnected from real science, has become a religion of sorts for some non-scientifically minded people. Put "science" is a post title and you'll fool many into thinking you speak from authority. I feel the author is well intentioned here, but has gone far beyond what the science suggests.

This is a huge issue I have with a lot of the blog posts I see. Especially related to design.

So much of design has been shaped by a consensus that's been accrued over time and established through intuition, feeling and opinion. A lot of visual design is aesthetic preference that experienced designers have learned through trial and error (speaking in broad terms). The knowledge gets passed on to more inexperienced designers, who tend to append the scientific justification on a post-hoc basis. Since most designers really don't have that scientific background, you really see poor articles like this, even when the literature is hardly conclusive[1]

[1] Good review of related concepts: http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...