dylan604 15 hours ago

And here is the crux of the problem. What you think is the best font is not the best font to other people. So people use the font they think is the best, so yet another font. It feels like a twist on the xkcd about creating a new standard

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  • youngtaff 12 hours ago

    Code examples that is onts with ligatures for === => etc really get in the way of comprehension for people who aren’t familiar with those ligatures

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  • chuckadams 14 hours ago

    It would be a terrible day for humanity if we were all so homogeneous that one aesthetic satisfied everyone.

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    • saghm 5 hours ago

      That's exactly why I should be the one picking my fonts, not whoever's site I'm viewing. My taste might be subjectively terrible, but no one else uses my devices, so why should someone else be sending me fonts when I just want to use whatever terrible font I like?

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    • xp84 12 hours ago

      It's been a pretty terrible day for the Web since webfonts were born then, since every site tries to force a single font to everyone for branding reasons alone. Case in point, Atlassian's hideous new font (which I've personally blocked using uBlock Origin, lol)

      I do really wish that instead of moving in that direction, that customization was the norm, with sites specifying "serif" and "sans-serif" and users were assumed to be setting those settings to what they prefer. Similar to how dark mode is now respected on at least the plurality of "important" sites.

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