Please use a serif font for large blocks of text. Why do you think The New York Times uses a serif font for body text? It is more readable. Can you imagine NYT in a sans-serif font? It would be ugly and harder to read. Sans-serif fonts are good for headlines and small snippets of text. On low res screens sans-serif fonts may be more readable even for body text, but 96dpi screens are relics of the past at this point.
Even more important: Don't add inter-character spacing for body text. It just makes the text harder to read. I am looking at you, Microsoft Edge. Edge has a "Immersive Reader" button for rendering web pages with just the text and important photos. Great feature, but the font they use has too much gap between individual characters, which makes the text hard to read. And better readability is he point of Immersive Reader! Then they added themes to change the background color, but you can't change the font.
Please use a serif font for large blocks of text. Why do you think The New York Times uses a serif font for body text? It is more readable. Can you imagine NYT in a sans-serif font? It would be ugly and harder to read. Sans-serif fonts are good for headlines and small snippets of text. On low res screens sans-serif fonts may be more readable even for body text, but 96dpi screens are relics of the past at this point.
Even more important: Don't add inter-character spacing for body text. It just makes the text harder to read. I am looking at you, Microsoft Edge. Edge has a "Immersive Reader" button for rendering web pages with just the text and important photos. Great feature, but the font they use has too much gap between individual characters, which makes the text hard to read. And better readability is he point of Immersive Reader! Then they added themes to change the background color, but you can't change the font.