I love this movie. Its well done and some of the characters in it are self described nerds. Typefaces are a fascinating subject one you start to get into them.

I love this movie. Its well done and some of the characters in it are self described nerds. Typefaces are a fascinating subject one you start to get into them. "Hacker News" typeface in the upper left (which I believe is Verdana) does not have any serifs on it. Serifs are the extra little points and tails on letters. Hacker News body font and logo does not have serifs, therefore it is sans-serif. 'sans' meaning 'without'. Sans-serifs are also called grotesque (or grotesk) because it appears as though the letters have had limbs amputated. :D Or at least that's how I remember the term. People definitely though they were ugly when they first appeared. Text written in a serif typeface is considered more distinguished and authoritative . Imagine the bible written in the same font used on HN here, it would look odd. Isn't HN authoritative and distinguished? I'll let the reader decide. However you should consider that you are reading the word 'fart' right now in it. Fart.