Nerd truth. Comic Sans absolutely messes up everything it touches.
~Katie Linendoll
I’m silently judging your font choice.
~Internet meme, c. 2014
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in their field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.
~Robert Bringhurst
A font of type is a complete collection, with a proper apportionment to each character, of the mated types required for an ordinary text. The letters are in unequal request: ‘a’ and ‘e’ appear repeatedly in long sentences; ‘z’ and ‘q’ may not be found in a page. The type-founder tries to supply each character in proportion to its frequency of use, so that the printer shall have enough of every and not too much of any character.
The written or printed summery of the proper quantity of types for each character is known in the United States as a scheme, and in Great Britain as a bill, for type… The apportionment of characters is necessarily varied for different languages… The scheme is not, and cannot be, nicely adapted to every kind of literary composition in English. For poetry there must be a large excess of quadrats; for the personal narrative, an excess of I; for tables or statistics, an excess of figures; &c.~ Theodore Low de Vinne, “A Font of Type,” The Practice of Typography, 1899
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