Following a refresh of their site, in which the BBC has switched fonts from Verdana to Helvetica Neue on Macs – which looks very nice – and Arial on PCs – which obviously doesn’t look quite as nice, they’ve also published quite an interesting article on the whole question of ‘do typefaces really matter?’ As designers we’d admit we have a somewhat biased, perhaps even bordering on an OCD obsession with type, but appreciate not everyone feels the quite same. The article provides a reasonable view of both perspectives and is worth a read, even if one side of the argument is clearly wrong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10689931