Thread:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Typography/Related discussion/reply (2)

I fully agree. The goal of these font stacks is to improve readability, legibility and consistency across all platforms. Using the systems native fonts is the best way to do that. Having a font stack that potentially hurts these goals out of an idealogical standpoint is counterproductive, and does nothing to spread this ideal. Most readers are not even aware what fonts are. But for those who have both system- and free open source fonts (like me), I can testify that some FOS fonts (that is, not native to the OS) are severly lacking in quality. That does not promote free fonts, it only gives the impression of bad web design.