[daxterspeed]

I think the parent argued that both serve a purpose. When you're dealing with a large selection of fonts a small pangram is more useful to help you narrow the list down - until it becomes small enough that you can switch to one of these font proofs to evaluate the final few fonts.

Websites like Google Fonts should absolutely use one of these font proofs for the dedicated font pages - or when simply comparing two fonts, but use a shorter pangram when comparing several fonts at once.

[beardyw]

I think there is a general problem of fonts being treated as if they were all equivalent when in reality there are fonts which can only be sanely used as display fonts, and body text fonts which admittedly you might use as both. The computer has lumped them all together in a way a type setter would never do. So, yes, different approaches for different uses.

As to choosing a font, having had a typographer, a graphic designer and a book dealer as 3 of my brother's, it is a job which I can hardly find the courage to do. I also regularly wish others shared my self doubt and left it to a professional, or at least just followed conventional wisdom. A font you notice is a bad font.