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Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#41

Post by pixelambacht » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:31 AM UTC

dojomouse wrote: post #24

I love it, but it let this go completely uncensored: "This transformative change in paradigm allows us to move beyond conventional thinking and kickstart the data driven era." Gonna go ahead and flag that as a bug :-)

Good catch. I'll put the font on Github tonight. Create a ticket (er even better, a pull request), and we'll add that bullshit!

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#42

Post by qznc » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:39 AM UTC

There are more fun replacements than versions of "bullshit".

    the agile unicorn funded an uber immersive beta below the fold.

    the [bunk] [hogwash] [stultified] an [oafish] [foolish] [foolery] [in sheer madness]

Tricky: Make sure "a" vs "an" is still used correctly with replacements.

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#43

Post by qznc » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:41 AM UTC

Also https://xkcd.com/1288/

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#44

Post by vanderZwan » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:43 AM UTC

Can you make one for art bullshit too? Like: "This eclectic multi-layered work represents the stratification of society and holds a mirror in front of us, confronting the viewer with the tensions between individual desire and societal pressures to conform"

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#45

Post by PhasmaFelis » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:50 AM UTC

I'd like the see a version that replaces "the Cloud" with "the internet" and "in the Cloud" with "on the internet." The meaning is 100% unchanged--try it!

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#46

Post by rl3 » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:50 AM UTC

What better way to put this font through its paces than the classic Web Economy Bullshit Generator:

http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#47

Post by pixelambacht » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:51 AM UTC

If you like to know about what goes into creating a font like this, check my post about it: http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/

It's mostly command line tools, so don't worry about any artistic ability (I didn't).

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#48

Post by benoliver999 » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:55 AM UTC

The image at the very bottom made me laugh.

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#49

Post by jermo » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 9:57 AM UTC

What would be great is to be able to pass the text as a URL parameter or save the text in bsFiddle. Something like:

http://www.sansbullshitsans.com?bs1234

That would make it easier to share my bullshit on social media and align strategies with product synergy.

Re: Sans Bullshit Sans

#50

Post by geoah » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 10:08 AM UTC

Bullshit-ify bookmarklet. Create a bookmark with the following code as the url and click it on any website. :)

https://gist.github.com/geoah/b2eda5b6cb7169bbbadb

ps. Chrome seems to be removing the `javascript:` part when pasting the code.