> It does genuinely matter that a designer should take trouble and take delight in his choice of typefaces. The trouble and delight are taken not merely "for ar

> It does genuinely matter that a designer should take trouble and take delight in his choice of typefaces. The trouble and delight are taken not merely "for art's sake" but for the sake of something so subtly and intimitely connected with all that is human that it can be described by no other phrase than "the humanities". If "the tone of voice" of a typeface does not count, then nothing counts that distinguishes man from the other animals. The twinkle that softens a rebuke; the martyr's super-logic and the child's intuition; the fact that a fragment of moss can pull back into the memory a whole forest --- these are proofs that there really is reality in the imponderable, and that not only notation but connotation is part of the proper study of mankind. - William Zinsser Zinsser was actually talking about writers here. And it might be a bit hyperbolic, sure. But I think the fact is that people who love to program spend a lot of time staring at words, and given a chance they'll take interest in the clothes that words wear.