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> fun little fonts have their place, but not at a funeral for example And definitely not when you're announcing the world you just found evidence of the existe

> fun little fonts have their place, but not at a funeral for example And definitely not when you're announcing the world you just found evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-co...

srockets 2y ago
Why not? This isn’t TED: the impressive stuff is the content, not the presentation.
hnlmorg 2y ago
(That’s referenced in the opening paragraph of the main article) I actually think that’s the perfect time to use that font. It’s a celebration font and breakthroughs in physics should be celebrated.
yen223 2y ago
If you verified the existence of the Higgs Boson you should be entitled to use any font your heart desires.
- shawn_w 2y ago
  Even Wingdings?
  - ykonstant 2y ago
    Especially Wingdings; it really conveys the effort that went into the research.
prmoustache 2y ago
It was not in a scientific paper but in the presentation, were a legible letter, even seen from far in the conference room, is more important than anything.
beardyw 2y ago
Publishing important papers in Latin has also fallen out of favour.
somat 2y ago
It's a sort of shibboleth, a filter to separate the audience into two groups. do you care about the evidence of the higgs boson or do you care about the use of that infernal font. Quite often people from the openbsd project will use the font in their presentations, to much the same effect. Which as a harmless sort of trolling, I find hilarious. They even went out of their way to encode it as the default font on their web server. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?r... http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c.diff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/...
fastneutron 2y ago
There must be some kind of inside joke at CERN about this. I’ve sat through more than a few conference talks by CERN researchers (not even LHC affiliated) where Comic Sans was the default font on the presentation slides.

srockets 2y ago

Why not? This isn’t TED: the impressive stuff is the content, not the presentation.

hnlmorg 2y ago

(That’s referenced in the opening paragraph of the main article) I actually think that’s the perfect time to use that font. It’s a celebration font and breakthroughs in physics should be celebrated.

yen223 2y ago

If you verified the existence of the Higgs Boson you should be entitled to use any font your heart desires.

shawn_w 2y ago
Even Wingdings?
- ykonstant 2y ago
  Especially Wingdings; it really conveys the effort that went into the research.

prmoustache 2y ago

It was not in a scientific paper but in the presentation, were a legible letter, even seen from far in the conference room, is more important than anything.

beardyw 2y ago

Publishing important papers in Latin has also fallen out of favour.

somat 2y ago

It's a sort of shibboleth, a filter to separate the audience into two groups. do you care about the evidence of the higgs boson or do you care about the use of that infernal font. Quite often people from the openbsd project will use the font in their presentations, to much the same effect. Which as a harmless sort of trolling, I find hilarious. They even went out of their way to encode it as the default font on their web server. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?r... http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c.diff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/...

fastneutron 2y ago

There must be some kind of inside joke at CERN about this. I’ve sat through more than a few conference talks by CERN researchers (not even LHC affiliated) where Comic Sans was the default font on the presentation slides.