Why? It's a horrible font. Why do "writers" prefer it?
I acquired a copy of Scrivener (it's a drafting software thing that writers swear by and at), and it's chock full of Palatino Linotype in the tutorial. I've been looking through writers forums online, and lo, palatino linotype as the default forum font. But it's horrible! It hurts my eyez!
When Microsoft Word switched from Times New Roman to Calabri, I was like, no way, man. Now I'm like, way, man, because Calabri looks nice. I could cope with Ariel too. But Calabri is what I sue for all Word docs now. It also looks like shit in Scrivener, so perhaps it's not the font's fault. Maybe Palatino Linotype, underneath it all, is just perfecto.
/courier new