Fuck that. I don’t want my website to look ugly because 99.9% of users don’t bother to change the defaults.
If browsers were slightly better at asking users, maybe we'd all have our three favourite fonts and background-, text- and link-colours instead of what someone else prefers we stare at all day.
Some of my favourite fonts I only discovered because I first visited a site that included it in their design.
What if I want websites to have different fonts because it gives them unique voices? Also, what about websites that use OpenType features only supported by some fonts (small caps, math, variable axes, etc.)?
This is not at all what the article recommends. I recommend actually reading it.
> 3. Strongly consider using only a generic family