Kieran Healy struggles with a new report that argues the efficacy of some of the world's uglier fonts:

Short version: setting information in hard-to-read fonts, including Comic Sans Italic, led to better retention amongst research subjects because of “disfluency”. When you have to work harder to read it, you remember it better.

Ah, bitter vindication for the classic McSweeney's monologue, "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole." Money quote: