[freestingo]

I went down the same rabbit hole when designing my own website, and I came out of it feeling like css as a whole is redundant. I also do not agree on not using default font families (not sure what’s wrong with them except for aesthetic reasons, something that I have never looked for in any of the websites I ever visited) or restricting content width (sometimes you may actually want longer lines to adapt to your window). One other thing that I would suggest is to make sure the font size is the same in both portrait and landscape mode on smartphones (landscape text is bigger than portrait text iirc).

[elevation]

There are human limit to the lengths of the lines of text that you can reasonably ingest before it becomes difficult to seek to the next line. If you measure the number of characters in a line of text in a newspaper, magazine, or novel, you’ll find that there is an upper limit of around 100 characters and a lower limit of perhaps 30. Exceeding either of these degrades reading comprehension and looks amateurish. Using styles to enforce good readability is a great use of CSS.

For tips see: https://practicaltypography.com/

[javier123454321]

It's funny, the tech purists sometimes really forget that typography has been studied to death for 100s of years before the web came to be. The backlash over wikipedia implementing a design considered to be higher readability and conducive to better comprehension was a funny case.