# Fonts - why the hate, why the love, when did we decide that there should be taste in fonts **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fonts-why-the-hate-why-the-love-when-did-we-decide-that-there-should-be-taste-in-fonts/649820 "2013-02-09T21:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 78
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fonts-why-the-hate-why-the-love-when-did-we-decide-that-there-should-be-taste-in-fonts/649820/78 "2013-02-11T07:00:47Z")
> [@World Trade Center Plane Crash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-trade-center-plane-crash/80850/312): > > Nothing stood out as the “personality” of the font. Whenever this happened, 90% of the time, it was Times Roman. It’s like the anti-font, no characteristics and no personality. I realize that this is precisely why some people use it, but I suspect people use it because it’s the default in the software they’re using. I think that the worst thing that happened was that MS put all these fonts in Word and Powerpoint, and untrained people thought they had to use each and every one of them. With all due respect to our friends who never studied design, there is a lot more to design than you may think. As has been said, you need to look to the “personality” of a font. What do you want it to do? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fonts-why-the-hate-why-the-love-when-did-we-decide-that-there-should-be-taste-in-fonts/649820)._