>>...There’s a wonderful book about Poggio called The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen J. Greenblatt.

I'd very much recommend that book - although I see it more as the story of how Epicurus' teachings* (which the early church did all they could to 'dissappear' - not that hard if writing's on paper and the only way writing survives is if it's recopied periodically) were rediscovered. The titular 'swerve' was the notion from another Greek philosopher that, essentially, not everything is predicably mechanistic

Also, as someone who had a side-gig setting up WEB printers while full-time writing software I had a ringside seat to what at the time was called "the font wars". Good overview here: https://www.pastemagazine.com/design/adobe/the-font-wars And that article mentions 'variable font' which IMO is going to do a *lot* for display on different size screens.
*in short, Epicurus taught that the gods, if they existed, were so much different from humans that they woudn't care what humans did any more than we humans care what ants do in their nests so no need for elaborate rituals to placate them (a very radical concept in his time) and further that there was no need to fear an afterlife 'in the shades'; existence after death was the same as before birth (also radical). He also taught that lack of pain was the highest good (and died in great pain which he countered by concentrating on remembering times with frioends and family). I'm not doing it justice - read the book?