Type study: Is anyone paying attention?
Laura Brunow Miner, writing for Typekit:
The reason the deck is a high visual priority is that you’re a lot more likely to nab a skimmer with an informative one-sentence summary of the piece than any length of body copy.
Laura explains “points of entry” — ways of catching reader attention. It’s easy to forget that the words we typeset, and the editorial structure of our texts, can work to our visual advantage.