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I would say the thing I struggle most with is also Typography.

That might not be a bad thing.

It's very rare that I see a website using custom fonts that are actually easy to read. They bloat pages, are non-standard, can be hard on the eyes. Sometimes it's so bad I go into Chrome's developer view and just disable them entirely so everything defaults to Black Arial 14px.

Valid point. I find most designers are using custom fonts that are too thin to be readable. They look clean but not readable. But Arial is not a readable font either. Next time try defaulting to Verdana.

Sorry that's what I meant to say, Verdana for paragraphs, Arial for headers.

My user agent styles include covering almost everything with font-family: Ubuntu !important. I did it as an experiment, but very rapidly decided I was never going back on a long-term basis (I've switched back once and couldn't bear it after a day or so).

Seems typography is elusive to many. Guess I'll write a post on typography basics.

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