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How long had Comic Sans been used on httpd status pages? (The mind reels…)
Since it was released in 5.8, I believe. OpenBSD projects tend to use Comic Sans as a matter of course as a ward against hipsters[1]. [1]: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.htm...
> "sans-serif; }\n” Note the incorrect, "smart" quote at the end of the line. I'm not sure if that's intentional, but this is going to be interesting.
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The hate for Comic Sans seemingly knows no bounds.
I saw the light when I realized that Simon Peyton Jones (of Haskell/GHC fame) purposely used Comic Sans in all of his presentations -- just to weed out who was paying attention to the styling over the content. Generally, I think this might be a good principle, but you can definitely take it too far. For example, SPJ's slides are always well-articulated and don't contain L33tsp33k (or whatever we call what the kids use on IM these days).
The hate for Comic Sans seemingly knows no bounds.
To provide at least one data point: My feelings about Comic Sans amount to "meh". I actually think it's a very-well designed font. It's just that people have no idea when it's appropriate and when it isn't. I saw the light when I realized that Simon Peyton Jones (of Haskell/GHC fame) purposely used Comic Sans in all of his presentations -- just to weed out who was paying attention to the styling over the content . Ge…
> This is a very funny question, "Why use Comic Sans?" So, all my talks use Comic Sans and I frequently see remarks like 'Simon Peyton-Jones, great talk about Haskell but why did he use Comic Sans?' but nobody's ever been able to tell me what is wrong with it. It's a nice legible font, I like it. So until somebody explains to me ... Ah, I understand that it's meant to be a bit naff, but I don't care about naff stuff, I care about being able to read it. So if you have got a sort of ... some rational reasons why I should not then I'll listen to them. But just being unfashionable? I don't care.
The hate for Comic Sans seemingly knows no bounds.
To provide at least one data point: My feelings about Comic Sans amount to "meh". I actually think it's a very-well designed font. It's just that people have no idea when it's appropriate and when it isn't. I saw the light when I realized that Simon Peyton Jones (of Haskell/GHC fame) purposely used Comic Sans in all of his presentations -- just to weed out who was paying attention to the styling over the content . Ge…
> This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags
All the OpenBSD presentations I've read have been in Comic Sans. They really like that font :)
I have a script that do most installations and configurations that I run after each Linux install. It contains the following lines: ### fix font issues sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/comic* sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Comic* So no comic sans cancer for me (except when people are perverse enough to put it into images, or worse, meatspace...)
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To provide at least one data point: My feelings about Comic Sans amount to "meh". I actually think it's a very-well designed font. It's just that people have no idea when it's appropriate and when it isn't. I saw the light when I realized that Simon Peyton Jones (of Haskell/GHC fame) purposely used Comic Sans in all of his presentations -- just to weed out who was paying attention to the styling over the content . Ge…
Mostly the kids are using emojis in IMs these days. I can't really tell what they're trying to say, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for anyone.
> "sans-serif; }\n” Note the incorrect, "smart" quote at the end of the line. I'm not sure if that's intentional, but this is going to be interesting.
How long had Comic Sans been used on httpd status pages? (The mind reels…)
Since it was released in 5.8, I believe. OpenBSD projects tend to use Comic Sans as a matter of course as a ward against hipsters[1]. [1]: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.htm...
So OpenBSD are a bunch of hipsters.