title: Helvetica or Arial as base font in CSS?
body: <p>One of my friend told me "Use font family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif in your website", when I asked him why then "blank" he don't know, some usability expert in his company told him this thing.</p>
  
  <p>But when I tried <code>helvetica, arial, sans-serif</code> then I noticed that I bold and un-bold is not working properly with this font whereas I use <code>arial, helvetica, sans-serif</code> this then its working fine. note the difference here: <a href="http://hell.meiert.org/core/html/helvetica-arial.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://hell.meiert.org/core/html/helvetica-arial.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I googled on this, but nowhere seen anything much convincing to me. Then I SO'd and found a post <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/879769/is-helvetica-a-browser-base-font">Is Helvetica a browser base font?</a></p>
  
  <p>So I want to ask that why Helvetica is recommended, and in the same post one of answers says "If you want Helvetica, you either have to get a Mac" So is the MAC PC's are the only reason to use this so that it will look good in MAC only?</p>
  
  <p>In my site when I am using "arial..." as base font then <code>&amp;rarr;</code> html character is rendering well in all browsers but when using "Helvetica..." then its not displaying properly in google chrome, Why?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>