Reply To: font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; is enough?

[chrisburton]

Yeah, maybe. I was just tinkering with it on https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans and setting a font to 16 made it look very tiny. But testing it in Codepen seems fine: http://codepen.io/senff/pen/CfGut

Open Sans is more readable and legible than Helvetica even down to 14px (see below).

http://codepen.io/chrisburton/pen/xGoqc

I should stop talking about fonts and typography

That’s the opposite of how we educate ourselves. I’m glad people care enough to even post these questions or spend time to learn.