• The default font is a serif, which on most platforms means Times New Roman. It’s not the greatest font out there, but it’s generally quite good for legibility

• The default font is a serif, which on most platforms means Times New Roman. It’s not the greatest font out there, but it’s generally quite good for legibility provided you don’t shrink it too much. It’s not horrible in the slightest on a mobile device. You may just be used to sans-serif fonts. • The default colours of #000 on #fff with #00e for links is excellent contrast that achieves precisely what is desired. Certainly it is a little more than is necessary, and I prefer to tone it down a little to #03d, but it’s not bad. • Yeah, the full width body and 8px margin is not a default style that has aged well. You know how mobile devices took up the meta viewport tag and the text size adjustment algorithm, because sites were designed for larger screens? It’d be kinda nice, as a theory, if browsers would perform a similar intervention for large and wide screens (using the existing meta viewport tag as the signal); but in practice, few enough sites and people would benefit from it that they’re not going to do it. • Please don’t touch text-rendering. On most platforms the effect is not noticeable with a side-by-side comparison even if you’re looking for it, and where there are differences, not everyone agrees about which is better. On slow devices that support the property (a mistake, they should just disable it), it murders performance on long pages. Just let the browser do its thing. There’s generally low-hanging fruit in text layout and rendering on websites that has a much more significant effect on readability. (Also, blame Apple for deliberately ruining text rendering for low-resolution screens some years back.) • Forms: eh, they’re simple and clear enough, so long as you lay them out with appropriate line breaks, table cells or paragraph margins. Certainly a sequence of <div><label>…</label><br><input></div> will be confusing, but when you consider the scope of what base stylesheets like this cover, they don’t tend to change the situation on form spacing and grouping at all.