Madison Rye Progress

There are two dirty secrets about typography that they don’t want you to know about.

1. Fonts and typefaces are the same thing. If a type designer tells you otherwise, they are lying to you. If they tell you that fonts are distinguished by size and whatnot, they are mocking you, and you should not put up with that.

2. All fonts are bad. There is literally no case where any font is a good choice. You may hear, for example, that a serif¹ font is good for body text, while a sans-serif² is good for a title or display, but as before, these are lies. (Typographers are, as a rule, pathological liars, and not to be trusted.) Every font is ill-suited to every purpose.

1. From the French, meaning "bullshit."

2. Again, French for "sans bullshit."

As someone who worked in book layout and design and still teaches classes about that:

I see no lies.

but Maddy, what about margins?

Ideas dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

"Hello, I'd like \usepackage[paperwidth=5.5in, paperheight=8.5in, layoutwidth=5.5in, layoutheight=8.5in, vmargin=0.5in, outer=0.5in, inner=1in, includeheadfoot, twoside, showcrop]{geometry}"

They have played us for absolute fools.