Bierut, Michael. Looking closer 3: classic writings on graphic design (en anglès). Allworth Communications, 1999, p.3. ISBN 1581150229. «The sweltering hideousness of the Bodoni letter, the most illegible type that was ever cut, with its preposterous thicks and thins, has been mostly relegated to works that do not profess anything but the baldest utilitarianism (though why even utilitarianism should use illegible types, I fail to see)»