The Power of the Placebo

When I read “Write It in Garmond” by R.E. Hawley in February (at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/magazine/garamond.html), I couldn’t help but think about the power of design placebos. Hawley writes “a few months ago, while I was looking at a long-term project I’d been working on in fits and starts, my cursor meandered toward the word processor’s font menu, and with one click the text reappeared in Garamond. I nearly gasped. Dressed in gentle serifs and subtle ornamentation, my words swelled with new…

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