I had a very strong impression that the quality of Web typography took a colossal nosedive when web fonts became a thing. My suspicion at the time was that this

I had a very strong impression that the quality of Web typography took a colossal nosedive when web fonts became a thing. My suspicion at the time was that this was largely a result of designers pushing pet fonts that looked fine on their Mac but like crap on other OSes (due to different rendering/hinting algos); can't prove that, though. I did try disabling web fonts in Firefox, but then that semi-broke sites like GitHub who seemed to think that using them to display UI button images was a good idea. This is why we can't have nice things. And why designers are sometimes held in less esteem than they might like.