Someone needs to tell Google that Arial sucks.
I’m no expert on typefaces. In fact, my design skills generally suck. However, after reading Sebastiaan de With’s article on Helvetica, I started to notice the font (and its bastard cousin, Arial) wherever I went. I changed Firefox’s default sans-serif font to Lucida Grande over Helvetica and suddenly, Wikipedia went and looked a whole lot better. Unfortunately, Google insists on using Arial for all its web pages (for old browser-compatibility, perhaps?), and it really started to piss me off. So much so, in fact, that I decided to change it. I’d heard of Stylish before, and decided to finally install it. So here’s my Stylish script to fix Google:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("google.com"), domain("google.co.uk") {
body {
font-family: "Lucida Grande", sans-serif !important;
}
}
If this isn’t a reason to use Firefox over IE/Safari, I don’t know what is. Now go, install Stylish, and fix that butt-ugly website. Oh, and if you’re a Windows user, use Lucida Sans Unicode instead.
