When I was a young lad spending too much time on the internet, I was obsessed with fonts.
I read blog posts on sites like Typographica about the finer points of kerning. I read white papers from Microsoft about the readability of Calibri compared to Arial. I copied and pasted hundreds of pages’ worth of books and essays from Project Gutenberg into Microsoft Word and formatted them to my liking. Among them was a theory of great fiction and taste by Henry James , published in 1884, which I later recast in Cambria and printed out so I could read it on the bus.
James believed that greatness could be defined by its elements, but that taste comes…
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