Humans are lazy.
I’m lazy.
I suspect you’re lazy also.
Most of us
use the default settings.
We use the ringtone
that came with the phone.
We use the font
that our email providers give us.
We use the setting
that came with our TVs.
And because most of us
use these,
they become the expected,
the new standard.
Seth Godin
shares
(about type)
“Memes and the rest,
built on a flimsy foundation of
Comic Sans and Arial
and Impact.
Whatever’s handy.
And then what was handy
became popular,
and what was popular
became the new standard.
And this is always the way.
When the public gets tools,
they use them,
without regard for the rules
that might have come before.”
Your defaults will become standards.
Choose them wisely.