Your E-mail Font Is Ruining Your Life
Typeface designers ditch Helvetica and Arial (Helvetica's 'ugly bastard son'). You should, too.
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Well, maybe not your life. But certainly your reputation with people of good taste.
Helvetica, the hip font of choice for brands and typeface nerds, is the default font setting for Apple Mail. Gmail defaults to Arial, a font one designer called Helvetica's "ugly bastard son." If the browser doesn't support Arial, Gmail will use Helvetica instead.