I'd be curious to have somebody elaborate on his list:
A geometric sans serif
A high quality serif for long text
A workhorse font
A web safe font
A variable font
Under what circumstances do you go for your "variable font"? What's the difference between the "workhorse" and the first two items? (His "workhorse" is a family containing both a serif and a sans serif. Though I have a hard time seeing Roboto Slab as a body font.)
The article is about design for web. Shouldn't they all be web safe fonts?
Well at least for CSS on the web. When designing posters I usually visit dafont.com to find something suitable. Remote webfonts don't even load for me since I turned them off in uBlock Origin. The web looks less stylized and fancy (just the way I like it).
Right now I have two. One that has letterforms I like in the roman alphabet, and one that has Japanese and Chinese letterforms.
(Unlike a web browser, I'm using a text rendering engine that doesn't merge fonts together behind my back, so I pick letters that I like in the languages that I need.)
A geometric sans serif
A high quality serif for long text
A workhorse font
A web safe font
A variable font
Under what circumstances do you go for your "variable font"? What's the difference between the "workhorse" and the first two items? (His "workhorse" is a family containing both a serif and a sans serif. Though I have a hard time seeing Roboto Slab as a body font.)
The article is about design for web. Shouldn't they all be web safe fonts?