A wide variety of people in the real world -- designers, brand designers, accessibility designers, book publishers, teachers, avid readers -- absolutely care about this.

I am often surprised by how much considered opinion non-professionals have about font choices, about readability etc.

The site we're on: I don't think we are going to agree that this is the real world... ;-)

(Ask anyone with dyslexia about typefaces and they can tell you a lot about what they like and don't like. Tell them about typefaces designed with dyslexia in mind and they may love you forever. I totally changed someone's life by introducing her to OpenDyslexic.)