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What font is better than Arial for screens?
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inter
droid sans
segoe ui
maybe helvetica and verdana?
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>>106808912
actually on second thought, if your vision is fine, stick with arial. these are recommendations based on my fucked up eyes.
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>>106808902
Helvetica
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Liberation, because it's a libre version of Arial.
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arial is just poorfag helvetica
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>>106809017
>>106809171
Helvetica isn't designed to be good for screens.
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>>106809523
&?
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>>106809523
arial's excellent font hints were only relevant for windows font rendering on low-res screens.

apple's font rendering never had this problem, so iphones had helvetica as default even before high-res screens made font hints obsolete everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Helvetica
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>>106809980
I don't care. I'm just a personal computer user, not a professional graphics designer making commercial works.
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>>106809980
Microsoft doesn't own Arial
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>>106810101
Ah, touché.
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>>106808902
Arial is just a bastardized version of Helvetica.
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>>106810286
that's why i prefer roboto. not jus the the bastard of one font.
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>>106810350
Eh, I don't know about that G, G.
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>>106808902
Inter seems nice
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>>106808902
Georgia



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