Fermions are anti-social and keep a space between them. Bosons are very gregarious. Millions of photons get into a single state in a laser(W196)
An exchange of two fermions results in things being in a different state, whereas an exchange of two bosons does not(W196)
Matter particles (fermions) are either leptons or quarks. Leptons are light and point like in experiments. Quarks have fractional electric charge and combine into heavier hadrons, such as protons and neutrons (W219)
Fermions, with their fractional spin and obedience to Fermi-Dirac statistics, are the particles out of which the material world is composed-nuclei, atoms, and molecules. Bosons, by contrast, are the quantified excitations of the various force fields that bind matter together (W342)