I actually find the font a bit hard to read: my System 1 brain took a noticeable split second (I’d estimate about 0.8 seconds) longer to process the words’ semantic meanings than it does with normal, all-lowercase text, or even with the titles of the other book covers at the Amazon link. This took long enough that I could see myself (i.e. my System 1) glossing over this book entirely when scrolling/looking through a page of books, being drawn to more immediately legible items.
Although the above might just be a quirk of my personal attention/processing style, I wonder if it’s worth experimenting with changes in font given this. I’d suspect my experience occurred due in part to the heavy font weight, since the title’s characters look less immediately distinguishable (and more blobby) than with lower weights. There are also a few very narrow spaces between adjacent words that probably complicate immediate word distinguishing. As mentioned above, the topic of AI also isn’t immediately clear within the title, which I’d worry might lose domain-interested readers if not understood semantically.
I actually find the font a bit hard to read: my System 1 brain took a noticeable split second (I’d estimate about 0.8 seconds) longer to process the words’ semantic meanings than it does with normal, all-lowercase text, or even with the titles of the other book covers at the Amazon link. This took long enough that I could see myself (i.e. my System 1) glossing over this book entirely when scrolling/looking through a page of books, being drawn to more immediately legible items.
Although the above might just be a quirk of my personal attention/processing style, I wonder if it’s worth experimenting with changes in font given this. I’d suspect my experience occurred due in part to the heavy font weight, since the title’s characters look less immediately distinguishable (and more blobby) than with lower weights. There are also a few very narrow spaces between adjacent words that probably complicate immediate word distinguishing. As mentioned above, the topic of AI also isn’t immediately clear within the title, which I’d worry might lose domain-interested readers if not understood semantically.