“The practicabillity of a type selection is as vital to typographic correctness as distinctive ‘atmosphere.’ An inharmonious color tone, a misfit size, an illegibility in mass, will transform the most appropriate ‘feeling’ into the most incongruous effect.’”

—Frederic Dannay, How to Use Modern Display Types, 1931; quoted by Steven Heller and Louise Fili in Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age, 1999.