Does Typography Affect Proposal Assessment?
http://www2.iastate.edu/~honeyl/314/files/berleant.pdf

Berleant, Daniel
Communications of the ACM
2000

Abstract:

Experience from assisting in the review of 30 proposals to a major funding agency suggests that mundane aspects of proposal formatting have an effect on proposal assessment. Why do these apparent connections between mundane formatting and actual funding occur? Here are a few possibilities.