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> "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.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140625075722/http://www.libres... > 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 thoroughly approve of it.
I guess the idea of putting comic sans MS as a way to force companies into putting relevant customised status error messages for users has failed. EDIT see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240906 For 500 a ticketing or a contact info to report the problem For a 404 whatever can help the user finds it way For congestion status a link to a status page? For stuff 40? that requires payment a link with a link f…
Until they have a filesystem failure that results in the server unable to locate the custom pages, and defaults to rendering the Comic Sans page? Even responsible developers find themselves hitting the consequences of the chaos monkey.
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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...
People who use the term "hipsters" to describe "anyone who is not like me" are the new hipsters.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140625075722/http://www.libres... > 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 think they do it to make a point, they don't care about stuff being pretty, they care about it being sane and secure. If the only thing you complain about is a typeface then maybe they're doing their job right :)
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Revision 1.2, Sat Jul 12 23:55:35 2014 UTC (19 months, 1 week ago) by reyk Use Comic Sans (or Chalkboard) as the default font for HTTP error messages because we love web hipsters. ok beck@
r1.3 added blinking to the page. I love it!
... because epileptics should suffer, apparently.
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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…
SPJ about Comic Sans: > 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…