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		kccqzy 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern Font Stacks But there's no guarantee that system-ui is even a sans serif font. Why make that change?

xd1936 4 months ago [–]

Because they're really different? system-ui is the specific font the OS uses for its interface... San Francisco in macOS/iOS/iPad OS, Roboto in Android, Segoe UI in Windows, etc. sans-serif is often Arial or Helvetica, but could be anything.

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