I vote for “it’s fine”. Maybe the authors just like how that font looks. And if somebody is judging a paper based on how it was typeset, I think that’s stupid and I don’t care if they get the wrong answer.
judging a paper based on [...] I don’t care if they get the wrong answer
There are things that influence the decision to take a look at all, and riceissa’s impression might be about damaging that game in a way that makes it less useful. If a paper is crafted out of newspaper clippings and liberally highlighted with markers, that’s not zero evidence, even as it’s screened off by the actual content.
I vote for “it’s fine”. Maybe the authors just like how that font looks. And if somebody is judging a paper based on how it was typeset, I think that’s stupid and I don’t care if they get the wrong answer.
There are things that influence the decision to take a look at all, and riceissa’s impression might be about damaging that game in a way that makes it less useful. If a paper is crafted out of newspaper clippings and liberally highlighted with markers, that’s not zero evidence, even as it’s screened off by the actual content.