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No comic sans in httpd status pages
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Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#52https://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 :)
Didn't their weaponization of Comic Sans start with LibreSSL?
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#53If you prefer a clean/readable version, it's available here: https://marc.ttias.be/openbsd-tech/2016-02/msg00313.php
I was hoping to click on this and find the same page in Comic Sans
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#54This patch is a prime example of why I understand OpenBSD devs' frustration with newcomers. It takes several hours of lurking to get the general idea of what OpenBSD culture[1] is. And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism, who gets aggressive when challenged. I'd flip the table every single time if I were one of the contributors. [1] as long as yo…
> And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new
> coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism,
> who gets aggressive when challenged.
As a regular reader of openbsd-misc, considering the relatively low volume of the list, the frequency with which people just storm in with batshit craziness is indeed boggling.
I mean..in the last three days alone, look at this[1] and this[2]. wtf!
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Because it's difficult to read.
I also find it difficult and unpleasant to read, particularly as body text.
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#56A thoughtful rebuttal by Comic Sans:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#57https://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 :)
Didn't their weaponization of Comic Sans start with LibreSSL?
Beck describes it in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU
[edit: slide at ~ 47 minutes]
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#58The hate for Comic Sans seemingly knows no bounds.
I invoke Godwin's Law:
The Comic Sans controversy is the most heated dispute about typefaces since Hitler weighed in on the Antiqua–Fraktur dispute. [1]
Because it matters which typeface your hate speech is set in:
"Your alleged Gothic internalisation does not fit well in this age of steel and iron, glass and concrete, of womanly beauty and manly strength, of head raised high and intention defiant ... In a hundred years, our language will be the European language. The nations of the east, the north and the west will, to communicate with us, learn our language. The prerequisite for this: The script called Gothic is replaced by the script we have called Latin so far ..." [2]
Here is the Bormann Decree, in which Adolph Hitler, the original Font Nazi, banned Blackletter for supposedly having Jewish roots: [3]
"For general notice I announce the following by order of the Führer:
"It is false to regard or describe the so-called Gothic typeface as a German typeface. In reality the so-called Gothic typeface consists of Schwabacher-Jewish letters. Just as they later came to own the newspapers, the Jews living in Germany also owned the printing presses when the printing of books was introduced and thus came about the strong influx into Germany of Schwabacher-Jewish letters.
"Today the Führer, in a discussion with Herr Reichsleiter Amann and the printing company owner Herr Adolf Müller, decided that Antiqua type is henceforth to be designated as the standard typeface. Gradually, all printed matter should be converted to this standard typeface. As soon as possible in regard to school textbooks, only the standard script will be taught in village and elementary schools."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_disput...
[2] Völkischer Beobachter, Issue 250, Sept. 7, 1934.
[3] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Hitlers-Third-Reich-fa...
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#59The 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…
> just to weed out who was paying attention to the styling over the content
I definitely understand the intention, but I think it's misguided. Does he also fart randomly during his talks to weed out who was paying attention to random noises over the content?
It's a rhetorical question, of course. I've been to several of his uniformly excellent talks, and no he doesn't, but I do think the talks are hindered by using Comic Sans not least beacuse it causes people to ask the question "why"!
Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that fonts are attack vectors, why style text at all?
The consideration of fonts as attack vectors is highly overplayed - the bytecode allowed in TTF in OTF fonts is pretty limited, while mistakes have certainly been made in FreeType and other implementations it's no worse than the JavaScript sandbox most people are already relying on in their browsers.
There are some fonts you should never install, even if they look innocuous:
http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/134412/the_trojan_horse.font
And other fonts are so beautiful that merely looking at them can cause harm:
http://re-type.com/notaweblog/2013/03/06/new-font-from-retyp...