Connoisseurs of font may include anyone -- graphic designer, student, or administrative assistant -- whose interests betray the incidental mannerisms, the serifs, of an artistic temperament. For font is not a function of utility. If it were that alone, we could read everything in Courier type and still get along. For many years people did and we called it the Cold War. No, font -- a beautiful font -- is not a matter of usefulness but rather of uselessness. It is a matter of no great necessity and as such it is the embodiment of Lao-tzu's ancient philosophy and the culmination of Wilde's famous Preface. For all art is quite useless.