Writer and filmmaker Errol Morris conducted an experiment on whether people perceived statements written in one font as more trustworthy than the same words in another.

Are some fonts more believable than others? A curious experiment by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris suggests as much. After polling approximately 45,000 unsuspecting readers on nytimes.com ...

Errol Morris: I’ve always been interested in typography. I’m not sure when I first started to think about typography and truth but I’m always thinking about truth in one form or another ...