Favorite fonts?

[kestrell]

I realize that I am opening a serious can of geeky worms by asking this, and I even encourage that, so...

Do folks have favorite fonts?

I'm trying to decide on a font for my webpages. I want something sans serif and accessible/easy to read, but also something that evokes books. My favorite font is actually futura, which is what my business cards are in, because it is both supposedly the most easy to view font--it's a geometric sanse serif-- and associated with space travel and science fiction, due to being the easiest to see at the farthest distance. For some reason, however, it is suggested that futura should only be used for headings and signage.

Comments

[duskpeterson]

Okay, I just checked Chrome, and there is no way to override the website's font choice, except with an extension. You can specify a default font, though. This may be where jesse_the_k's suggestion would work, of having the website defer to the default font, but I don't know how to code that.

Of course, this would mean that, in Safari, the user would simply see Safari's choice of default font, with the user having no choice.

Incidentally, Safari and Chrome are by far the most popular browsers currently (at least, for sighted users; I don't know about visually impaired users).

[jesse_the_k]

iOS 14, which is too buggy for me to download just yet, does let you set your default browser to something that's not Safari.

https://tidbits.com/2020/09/25/how-to-change-your-default-email-and-web-clients-in-ios-14-and-ipados-14/