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Browser default is not necessarily the same as the OS default. Even Safari on macOS (which one might expect to be well-integrated) sans-serif resolves to Helvet
by amarshall 5y ago
Browser default is not necessarily the same as the OS default. Even Safari on macOS (which one might expect to be well-integrated) sans-serif resolves to Helvetica, not San Francisco.
It would be great if they were equivalent, but alas, they are not.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoSafari represents how Apple would ideally like the world to work, and I don't think Apple wants San Francisco to be used for anything other than UI elements. In addition to not being Safari's system font, it also doesn't appear in Font Book or other system font selection menus.