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I've noticed for a week or more that some titles on BBC News site use a different font. Compare this with that. One uses a serif font while the other one uses a sans serif font.

Being a Saturday without much to do, I investigated a bit and found out that the serif font is a specially designed font (Reith font) that supposedly will make BBC site to stand out more and, among other things will "significantly reduce annual spend on licensing third-party owned fonts".

I'm not an expert but I'm wondering if forcing all browsers to download a font, isn't incurring additional bandwidth costs? In general is it advisable to design a site with a specific (and rare) font or use one of the many fonts already cached by browsers?

Also, years ago when I was learning the basics of font usage, I remember the advice to use serif fonts for the body of text (serifs guide the eye and make it easier to follow long paragraphs) and leave sans serif for headlines that stand out better. Is this still considered sound advice?

Add to these questions the visual inconsistency from one article to the next and I ask: why would BBC do that?
Mircea

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