Comment by brailsafe
> I don't think any designer has cared about that in the last 30 years. Perhaps not ever.
Not true at all. For instance, Arial was/is typically used as the fallback font for Windows users visiting a website that relied on system sans-serif fonts, while Helvetica shipped with OSX and would be prioritized for those lucky users.
Arial would be chosen by Windows users as good enough because they were already locked in a prison of bad design and terrible typeface rendering anyway, and didn't have other sensible options installed by default.
Apple decided to have a font as close as possible to print, at the cost of a more fuzzy render on the low DPI screens of the time.
Microsoft decided to have a font adapted to computer screens, with characters that match the screen grid better for a crisp result.
It's not really "bad design and terrible typeface", but different choices with each their pro and cons.
Of course it's different now with high DPI screens.