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Re:Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013) by nikanj on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:31AM (#13520244)
I am going to go even further, and admit most people on those low DPI screens don't think they look that terrible. Designers have extremely high standards, and often err to the side of stylish instead of readable.

You might be surprised how many people prefer 17pt comic sans to the crisp 7pt pale-gray-on-white designers usually label "joy to read" or "beautiful".

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Re:Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013) by throwawayish on Monday January 30, 2017 @07:20AM (#13520567)
> to the crisp 7pt pale-gray-on-white designers usually label "joy to read" or "beautiful".

Perhaps because they are actually neither and many designers are not well-versed in typography. Making text beautiful (but not necessarily readable) is design; making text readable (but not necessarily beautiful) is typography. They of course, overlap, and good typography usually looks good as well.

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