[mnicole]

What a pretentious article.

> Do NOT Use Black on White

> The only reason I don't visit Quora is bad typography. Yeah, I am that crazy!

Meanwhile, OP's body copy is a heavy slab-serif, his headers are a custom sans-serif without any margins or visual differences besides 6px in size. Using something like http://www.gridlover.net/, you can accomplish better readability and hierarchy.

He suggests type based on what's available on your OS despite the fact that those should be your fallbacks, not your defaults now. We've got a brilliant library of web type that look good and sites like http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ + http://font-combinator.com/ + http://daneden.me/type/ help to figure out what emotion you're going for.

He also completely ignores the weights and families available with Helvetica that truly make it superior to Arial that you can call for most OS X users, and fallback with Arial for Windows folks. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/better-helvetica/

[JLehtinen]

I'm also not a big fan of his use of hyphens '-' for dashes '—', since we're so passionate about typography.

[mnicole]

Once you —, you never go back.