"This research shows that we should start looking ... manipulating text characteristics such as font type, size, and spacing may boost reading speed and comprehension among both adults and children.

Go ahead, pick a font to read this story in. You may notice this makes it harder (or possibly easier!) to read, depending on the font choice. Read on to see why. You make font choices every day.

We say this after reading a study that is found in the ACM Journal, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction for August, which contains a paper that explores how fonts affect reading speed.