Erik Spiekermann، احد فطاحلة مصممي الخطوط المعاصرين —بجانب كونه احد أبطالي المفضلين—، يجاوب على كل من يعتقد بأن الاهتمام الدقيق والهوس في التفاصيل هو مهمة كل صانع وليس فقط من يقوم بتصميم الخطوط:

Every craft requires atten­tion to detail. Whether you’re build­ing a bicy­cle, an engine, a table, a song, a type­face or a page: the details are not the details, they make the design. Con­cepts don’t have to be pixel-perfect, and even the fussi­est project starts with a rough sketch. But build­ing some­thing that will be used by other peo­ple, be they dri­vers, rid­ers, read­ers, lis­ten­ers – users every­where, it needs to be built as well as can be. Unless you are obsessed by what you’re doing, you will not be doing it well enough. Typog­ra­phy appears to require a lot of detail, but so does music, cook­ing, car­pen­try, not to men­tion brain surgery. Some­times only the experts know the dif­fer­ence, but if you want to be an expert at what you’re mak­ing, you will only be happy with the result when you’ve given it every­thing you have.

يضيف أيضاً جزئية تعكس واقع شعور من يرى نتائج ما عملت عليه، من الناس:

I strongly believe that the atten­tion some­one gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvi­ous or not. Inher­ent qual­ity is part of absolute qual­ity and with­out it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.

إلى كل من يعتقد بأني “غريب أطوار”، من الأصدقاء، عند اهتمامي الدقيق في التفاصيل، عليه قراءة المقالة بصدق. فببساطة، عدم اهتمامك وهوسك في أدق تفاصيل عملك، هو عدم قيامك بعملك على وجه كامل.