Thread:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Typography/MediaWiki should be font agnostic

Up until very recently, MediaWiki has been consistently font agnostic - specifying font-face as either 'serif' or 'sans-serif'. I have not seen any justification for why this needs to be changed to "Helvetica Neue", which seems like a very arbitrary choice. At least Arial has a huge glyph set, so I could understand an argument for using it, but I still think being font-agnostic is better. Otherwise in 10 years, we'll have changed our mind 10 times about which font to use, and we'll have complete fragmentation, like we have for every other UI element we've tried to standardize (multiple times). I would propose we remove the use of Helvetica Neue and go back to simply sans-serif.