Because it’s always there and always subject to taste, typography attracts idiots and pedants. The few people who know enough to take a credible stand on the issues are usually selling something
First, do no harm. The writing has to be legible and complete. Unfortunately, you can’t just make everything as simple as possible; you have to reflect a complicated world. For a start, there are more than 26 letters: what Americans call special characters
are not optional. Peter Høeg, for instance, is a real person with a real name; calling him Peter Hoeg is as wrong as calling him Paul Høeg. You can embed any Unicode character in HTML in the form &#U;
where U is its number, or use a named entity like ø
for ø or É
for É. Every browser knows Unicode, and Unicode knows every character, so you may as well use the right one.
Clean code, comfortable editing,