You make the argument of readability, and I counter it with this:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/03/serif-vs-sans-the-final-battle/amp/?client=ms-android-google

On Nov 30, 2016 7:39 AM, "John Roper" <[email protected]> wrote:

> In all sans-serif fonts that i's look like l's. Just writing this message,
> my email client's font (Gmail) is the same way.
>
> On Nov 30, 2016 7:35 AM, "John Roper" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I can make the links in the footer brighter and I will look into other
>> fonts to use. Arial is the default font  for many websites and it is the
>> fallback font for most web browsers.
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2016 7:30 AM, "Werner LEMBERG" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> >>> One of the major things on the site that make it look antiquated
>>> >>> is the LilyPond intro using the text that looks like it came from
>>> >>> a server error message.
>>> >>
>>> >> LOL
>>> >
>>> > Concise, readable, informative: must be an error.
>>>
>>> Hehe.  It's very annoying to me that so many sites use extremely thin,
>>> gray non-serif fonts!  Designers might me delighted, but such text is
>>> *extremely* hard to read on an LCD if the viewing angle is not exactly
>>> orthogonal to the LCD plane.
>>>
>>> Note that I don't insist on a serif script, but the selection of a
>>> proper non-serif script is delicate.  In particular, Arial is *very*
>>> bad.  We need one where `l' and `I' look distinct.
>>>
>>> John, here's another minor issue: The white commata between `Català',
>>> `Česky', etc. look bad.  I can imagine to replace them with middle
>>> dots, without a final stop.  And what about making those dark-gray
>>> link entries also a bit brighter?
>>>
>>>
>>>     Werner
>>>
>>
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