[cwbrandsma]

Engineers tend to view fonts thru an engineering lens, instead of cultural or aesthetic points of view. So, often the number one feature of a font for us is symbol clarity. How easily can I distinguish between a 0 and O, and 1 and l, with no context (a test which most fonts fail). Many typographers or font enthusiasts don't care much about those distinctions because they can rely on context (programmers cannot).

So, many engineers I've come in contact with care deeply about their fonts, but view much of what happens in typography as a distraction.