[kingsidharth]

I hope they fix their typography too. Arial is not the way to go, especially when you allow paragraphs as posts (or essays). Line-height makes it even worse. </designer's-rant>

[waqf]

I just don't expect professional typography from the web yet. Can you give an example of a site that does it right?

[kingsidharth]

http://37signals.com

http://facebook.com (Lucida Grande is a fab choice)

http://readability.com - one of the key things this app changes is typography.

Check out default typography on thesis theme - http://64notes.com/thesis

Examples of bad typography:

google groups, Google Plus

http://wierd.com

I've many more if you want.