I think the better question is, why specify fonts at all? I set fonts in my browser. When browsing any site that simply leaves fonts alone, everything looks t

I think the better question is, why specify fonts at all? I set fonts in my browser. When browsing any site that simply leaves fonts alone, everything looks the way I want it to! When sites tinker with the font used by most text, it is unnecessarily hard to fix (e.g. my style sheet has to list all kinds of HTML tags where text may appear and include lots of "!important" flags). I can understand setting a fancy font for the odd title or something, but all the text on the page? Why? For what it's worth, this is my entire override stylesheet for HN, including some tweaks to the home page that I think make it substantially more readable. I recommend trying it. :) html { overflow-y: scroll; } body, p, table, th, td, a, .comment { font-family: "Helvetica Neue" !important; font-size: normal; padding: 0.2em; } .subtext { width: 100%; padding-left: 40%; padding-bottom: 0.6em; border-bottom: solid #ccc 0.1em !important; }