Default fonts in Firefox

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

On 9/26/05, Ian Jackson <ian at davenant.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Bug 7196 complains that the fonts in Firefox are ugly.
>
> I agree and my current plan is to make at least the following changes
> to the default Firefox profile:
>
>  * Use sans-serif fonts, rather than serif fonts, when the
>    website doesn't specify.
>
>  * Set minimum font size to 11 (one less than the default size of 12).
>
> There is room for discussion about whether we should also change the
> default font chosen for each of sans and serif.
>
> This is your chance to have a large flamewar about a trivial matter.

Sweet.

I don't think the default font size should be fooled with.  12pt is
fairly standard (except when 14pt or 16pt is "standard") and
regardless it is entirely dependant on the display.  For example 12pt
is too small for a lot of sites (gmail for example) on my laptop so I
run 14pt as the default.

Besides, a lot of sites expect the default size to be too small so
they shrink it for the entire site... granted, it's hard to accomodate
for bad web design decisions... but maybe the best way is just to
leave things alone.

my two bits.

-Tom