Dear Designers: Stop Using System Fonts Like It’s 2025

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Dear Designers, stop relying on system fonts as if we’re still in 2025. While system fonts may offer speed, familiarity, and a sense of neutrality, overusing them strips away personality, creativity, and the uniqueness that design should communicate. In an era where brands fight for distinct identities and user experiences demand more emotional depth, leaning solely on system defaults feels lazy and uninspired. Yes, performance matters, and yes, readability is critical—but design isn’t just about function; it’s about expression, differentiation, and evoking a feeling. With the incredible variety of modern web-safe, variable, and performance-optimized typefaces available today, there’s no excuse for reducing your work to the bland safety net of default system typography. Fonts are voices, and as designers, it’s our job to ensure our projects speak with authenticity, not monotony.