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Custom fonts are often a mistake for any language, especially google fonts often look wrong. Due to this browsers often have an option to force usage of system fonts and set minimum size to improve readability.



> Custom fonts are often a mistake for any language, especially google fonts often look wrong.

Be that as it may, the overwhelming majority of unicode fonts are dramatically wrong for Japanese and not dramatically wrong for other languages.

> Due to this browsers often have an option to force usage of system fonts and set minimum size to improve readability.

Such options are shrinking IME. E.g. Electron is built on browser internals, but does it offer that option?




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