If devs would use a font stack of maybe Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, ... this would not be such a problem but a lots of devs (working on osx) do not even care to test on Windows. So actually I find this quite a reasonable approach.
Maybe similar to some browsers (like Opera did before being blink or IE-Spartan) implementing css props of "other" browsers prefixes (-webkit ;) just because devs are "lazy".
I guess a realistic view of how the web is which may be seen :) or :(
;)

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Jonathan Snook said on February 06, 2015

@LLULL to clarify, if Helvetica is not installed, Windows will supply Arial when Helvetica is requested.

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Eric A. Meyer said on February 09, 2015

I think this is the same as http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2013/03/12/helvetial/, except maybe from the other end. I’m having trouble keeping track of all the moving pieces at the moment.

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Luke C. said on February 23, 2015

I thought that Helvetica was decent (even on PC) except at very small sizes. I always made sure to use Arial when you were under ~ 13 pt or so... and I thought PCs only replaced it for smaller sizes. Arial's uppercase 'R' is enough to bother me at any larger size.

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Martijn said on February 24, 2015

Did you know you don't have to quote font names that have a space in them? Now you do :)

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James said on April 15, 2015

That's an interesting find. So the best practice then is to declare the Windows specific fonts first rather than the Mac ones.

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