That's a bit of an issue I've got with Tschichold. As there's a lot of "taste" involved in this, it's hard to separate rational judgement from just getting old

That's a bit of an issue I've got with Tschichold. As there's a lot of "taste" involved in this, it's hard to separate rational judgement from just getting old and more conservative. And one should note that even old Jan was there way before digital typography on the web, heck, even way before DTP. Don't get me wrong, I really liked his typography for laymen booklet ("Erfreuliche Drucksachen durch gute Typografie", a title that really can't get both more quaint and Germanic). But he's really supremely conservative in there, warning everybody about the dangers of color, sans-serifs and lauding the beauty and composition of medieval woodblocks. So, yeah, cum grano salis as they say…