Selecting a legible font is important, Kelpie, so I understand your concern. Maybe it can be readdressed in a future edition, although if people haven't complained then I'd guess it's not distracting your readers.
My problem is I have spend a good portion of my life doing artwork, some of which includs text as part of the graphic, so I fall into the habit of seeing the text as a graphic rather than simply text. (I'm one of those people that wants to put fancy or unusual fonts on something to play off of the theme or tone of the piece before I send it out - a big no-no with potential publishers, so I'm told.)
I have to let go of the habit and simply trust the writing.
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As a writer, I had a dream of how English had evolved in a future world. In it, the English syntax had changed significantly as a pidgin English would. Wrote the dream down and then had a devil of a time alluding to its language use without thinking about the whole language.
One of the things that I wondered as I was writing it was how it would be to think in this language - what assumptions about the nature of the universe and how I'm supposed to act as a member of this culture would I have as a native speaker?
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An8el - your dream made me think of Margaret Atwood's
Oryx & Crake . In it, she does some of what you were thinking. Her book is a bit confusing at times, but more confusing is that she assumes her readers know some rather specific experiments and events in genetic engineering. I'm pretty up on that stuff, but she lost me on a few things and I had to look them up.
For example, she assumes everyone knows what a "pigoon" is. (It's the actual scientific name they have given experimental pigs that contain some human genes - these exist in labs now). She assumes everyone knows this. I hadn't heard the term, and there were some other similar ones I had to look up. Although I thought it was a cool idea for her to do this, she didn't really write it in a way that those unfamiliar with these experiments could easily get. It made the book a hard read.