Fair, a lot of folks do treat it with probably more praise than makes sense. I'm sure I'm one of those people. :D That said, my understanding is that there re

Fair, a lot of folks do treat it with probably more praise than makes sense. I'm sure I'm one of those people. :D That said, my understanding is that there really was no "optimal" for the best way to arrange text. You can, effectively, make an objective function that you can optimize on; but there is no global "this will make text look good" algorithm. Indeed, even ligatures are... debatable in utility. I personally like them; but I would scoff at any claims for any objective superiority of them. They are fun and a bit of a "flex" for laying out text on a computer. Any other claim is going to be tough to hold up.