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@bw@social.lolI set out to style the quaint, white page with its long runs of Times New Roman and I thought to myself, “first, do no harm.”
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Even when teaching plain HTML in CodePen, I always set the font to Arial... even if I touch nothing else on the page!
(I also add a comment that this CSS declaration makes the body of the web page display in Arial, in case anyone stumbles on to it.)
@jen4web It would be interesting to see an alternate world where the browser default was sans-serif. It makes me think there would have been so many cool serif-based designs as a reaction to the default.
@bw Yes. Back in the tiny blurry screen days, the serifs truly reduced legibility. It's less true now, except for tiny serif fonts, which I don't think anyone is using. Even those who make the tiny light grey text on the white background don't generally commit that sin.