As a futura fan, I really admired Ikea for switching to verdana for purely utilitarian reasons: they needed a font that had the absolute widest unicode coverage

As a futura fan, I really admired Ikea for switching to verdana for purely utilitarian reasons: they needed a font that had the absolute widest unicode coverage for use in basically any language on planet earth. It was a short list. That said, I cringed at verdana's bell-bottom almost-serifs, especially when used at undignified large headline sizes, far larger than it was ever intended to be set. The move to noto makes me happy.