Thread:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Typography/Related discussion/reply

From a serving-the-reader perspective, the best available fonts should come first. Sorry, but many free fonts do not have professional quality, and their design does objectively impact readability and accessibility.

I understand the advantage of promoting free and open, but these web fonts are part of users’ OS. I don’t feel that masking OS capabilities furthers the ideology either. In the case of font choice, it risks a backlash by imposing one of free software’s weak points on readers. Such choices should be made very carefully based on the way design affects the reader, not based on ideology.