I started to read Great Expectations lately and I found something very interesting in the second paragraph of chapter one. A text which describes the image a little boy has of his dead parents. The interesting point is, this vision is shaped by the typeface on the tombstone of his parents as Dickens writes:

The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

Interesting to me is that obviously the author found that type might reveal something, carry a meaning of its own apart from the information in the text, and that this inherent feature of a typeface is somehow universal, as a little boy is able to reflect on it. I guess nobody is on a wrong path with taking type seriously.