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Good article, but the best solution to the font problem is to simply use native fonts:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/using-system-ui-fon...

This solves both privacy and performance problems and this is also what Bootstrap recommends now:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/content/typography/

Long prose does not benefit from those fonts. A system font is usually used for UIs and is optimized accordingly. There's more to font selection than "use the same font as native applications".

I'm not quite sure what about e.g. Roboto or SF Pro Text isn't suited to long prose, or if you think OSes ship with just the font used for system UI (and not also dozens of others several of which were pretty much designed for longform text).

One time a Dell support install overwrote my Helvetica Neue font and it took me months to figure out why some sites looked absolutely terrible.

Not saying that you shouldn't use native fonts but man Dell threw a wrench into that idea for me.

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