Ah, font snobbery is truly a strange thing. What if, stick with me here, people like Arial? What if the website's audience likes the fonts that this font geek

Ah, font snobbery is truly a strange thing. What if, stick with me here, people like Arial? What if the website's audience likes the fonts that this font geek doesn't like? Besides, as is eventually pointed out, most web sites were designed with availability as the main criteria behind chosen fonts, not design. That's why you can specify more than one as fallbacks. If you design a website totally around a specific font then what happens if the font isn't available? True, we have web fonts today. If you start a new project then seriously consider using a web font. But this type of judgmental opinion isn't fair to websites designed before the rise of the web font. For some, switching to a web font for an established design may be a significant undertaking with unforeseen consequences. EDIT: Read the guy's about page. He's apparently a young guy that already knows everything. His description of himself doesn't portray him as much of a professional.