A ''boring'', over-used font selected when web designers were not able to come up with a better solution.

''Wouldn't that be Comic Sans?  ;-)''

''No, what I really want to say is, what's wrong with using an established easy-to-read font instead of, in forced "creativity", coming up with something new?'' -- ClaesWallin

Well, Times is hardly a 'new' font.
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An excellent font, however, for word processors and printed material.

''Or is that TimesRoman? (kind of an in-joke for typographic lawyers. http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/articles/times.htm )''