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You're limiting the scope of ppi to desktops only? Almost ~80% of the web is on mobile [1][2][3]. Close to 56% people online are "mobile only", which means that they will never look at anything other than a hdpi screen in their lifetime.

[1] https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/mobile-percentage-of-traffi...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/277125/share-of-website-...

[3] https://www.smartinsights.com/mobile-marketing/mobile-market...

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It's true, I haven't factored in smartphones. That still doesn't invalidate the argument. I still believe it's quite narrow-minded to choose typefaces based on a 270+ ppi device. It still excludes a quite significant amount of users, and probably most desktop users.

> It still excludes a quite significant amount of users, and probably most desktop users.

A shrinking fraction of 32% [1] web users. Some hard data to take a call based off of.

[1] https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1397884753097990144

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