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Re:Stop Using Custom Web Fonts by leokennis on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:30AM (#35179849)
It depends greatly on the goal of the website. If the only goal is to convey some textual information, sure go with "sans-serif" or "serif" or "system-ui". But your website will look different on every OS.

If you want any form of design and consistency and do not want to use a web font, what are you left with? I think Arial and Times New Roman ship with every Windows and Mac release...Linux likely not?

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Re:Stop Using Custom Web Fonts by jeroenhd on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:45AM (#35179938)
From the front page: https://modernfontstacks.com/ has a bunch of nice font stacks that should work on most platforms.
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Re:Stop Using Custom Web Fonts by timw4mail on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:26AM (#35181640)
Your consistency is not worth it to the end user. It's just time wasted, bytes used on a limited data plan, and overall, generally not worth it.

Besides, few users will really notice the difference between Arial, San Francisco, or other system fonts.

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