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It's a running joke. Included on some of their slides and webpages is the disclaimer: "This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to st
by dd9990 11y ago
It's a running joke. Included on some of their slides and webpages is the disclaimer:
"This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags "
- Dylan16807 11y agoComic sans is not so bad. Covering it with artifacts makes anything painful to read.
- gpvos 11y agoI think the OpenBSD people started doing this after the CERN presentation on the Higgs boson that also used Comic Sans. By making it slightly harder to read and therefore more difficult to scan diagonally, it increases the attention the reader gives to the text.
- vacri 11y agoAnd yet they could have improved readability by simply using png instead of jpg. This isn't a 'hipster' thing, it's a 'be thoughtful of your users' thing.