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Sans Bullshit Sans
- stevep98 12y agoThat purple color is amazing!
- lukeholder 12y agohaha, favourite part is the logo satire at the bottom of the page.
- XYEaQMZJvS 12y agoI've actually read corporate "mission statements" that don't even sound like English. Like, not just a few buzzwords, but near-complete gibberish in places. What possesses people to do this?
- cheez 12y agoPeople are generally too nice to call out bullshit. When things don't make sense, you give others the benefit of the doubt and think "well, it must make sense to them" rather than "hey, what does that mean exactly?"
- andrewfong 12y agoMission statement by committee?
- tormeh 12y agoThe goal is to write something that people can rally behind but that's at the same time not divisive. So it needs emotional impact without meaning, and thus we get corporate bullshit.
- sinaa 12y agoThey might have been using this: http://cbsg.sf.net http://cbsg.sf.net
- seanhandley 12y agoNot working in Chrome 40
- bobbles 12y agoYeah if i type anything in it just shifts everything down the page
- pbowyer 12y agoWorking for me, but only if I type into the textarea (not paste)
- MrBuddyCasino 12y agoDefinitively not working in Chrome 40 on OSX, but Firefox does. Lovely idea.
- fugyk 12y agoIt is working on OSX Chrome 40 in my case.
- sumitviii 12y agoWorks if you paste as plain text (Ctrl + Shift + V).
- pixelambacht 12y agoI think this was because of the contenteditable div. I now stuck a plain ol' textarea in there, that should fix the problem.
- spdustin 12y agoWoah, did I miss something? Chrome has problems with contenteditable?
- pgt 12y agoSeems to be missing the "digital strategist" ligature :).
- fit2rule 12y agoI love ligatures - to me they're like the user interface paradigm of the future, and a good example of the beauty of ligatures is the Chartwell font [1] which allows the creation of beautiful, detailed graphs with little much more than a text editor. [1] https://www.fontfont.com/how-to-use-ff-chartwell https://www.fontfont.com/how-to-use-ff-chartwell I'd love to see more innovation in the use of ligatures in user interface and graphics work - so I'm quite happy to learn of Sans Bullshit Sans. Hopefully this will prompt the investigation of ligatures, in general, by more designers .. and we can see other uses come out of this often-overlooked feature.
- Aoyagi 12y agoLovely! Needs a "translator" for sites along with BS counter.
- helb 12y agoIt's not the same thing, but it would be easy to adapt (see content_script.js) – https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
- thegeomaster 12y agoSomething like https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js ?
- Aoyagi 12y agoHeh, something like that, thanks.
- jlukanta 12y agoI think this is great to test your pitch!
- cabirum 12y agodoes not work in IE - "@font-face failed OpenType embedding permission check. Permission must be Installable."
- pixelambacht 12y agoThanks for reporting. I took the webfont version of Open Sans as that was smaller. I'll change the permissions tonight.
- pixelambacht 12y agoThis should be fixed now. If you download the font again, it should be installable. (If you could check and let me know I'd be eternally grateful! I don't have a Windows machine nearby.)
- cabirum 12y agonope, not fixed yet, same error. fsType bit should be 0.
- pixelambacht 12y agoYeah, that was the fix. Works fine on the Windows machines I just tested with. Did you redownload the font?
- lordelph 12y agoThe more interesting part for me was how they made it http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ TL;DR version: they made a font with custom ligatures, so that the sequence of glyphs that make 'synergy' are replaced with a single 'bullshit' glyph!
- wingerlang 12y agoIt would be fun if the sentence "Meticulously hand crafted by PixelAmbacht" had some of the ligatures. I expected it to have but it didn't.
- davegardner 12y agoDoes anyone know how well search engines cope with ligatures? If they don't I expect it won't be long before we see spam sites using ligatures as a way to hide their spamminess.
- jerluc 12y agoLigatures shouldn't affect search engines, as they will index the text of the pages, not the fonts/visual representation themselves.
- michaelmcmillan 12y agoI actually think the crawlers are more sophisticated than that. Recently I got an email from Google saying the text on my website was not big enough when browsing my site with a low resolution - which is why they choose to lower my rank on the results page. Clearly they have pretty advanced tests when it comes to accessibility of text, not only the content.
- derefr 12y agoI assume the problem would be the other way 'round: text that says one thing to search engines, but then uses a custom ligatured font to say something entirely different to users.
- kilian 12y agoBeware! If you have droid sans installed, this will overwrite it (make sure to name your fonts!)
- pixelambacht 12y agoOh, nice catch. I'll fix that tonight. Edit: fixed, thanks again
- dojomouse 12y agoI 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 :-)
- pixelambacht 12y agoGood catch. I'll put the font on Github tonight. Create a ticket (er even better, a pull request), and we'll add that bullshit!
- zem 12y agomissed 'synergistic' and 'mobile-first', though it did get 'leverage'
- pix64 12y agoCaps breaks it.
- ygra 12y agoThat's probably quite tricky to fix as ligatures are case-sentivive. It makes little sense to have an fi ligeture applied to FI, as well. And the longer the letter combination, the more variants you'd have to include (2^length).
- pdpi 12y agoTo be fair, you only need three to cover the vast majority of actual uses: variant, Variant, VARIANT.
- arihant 12y agoNothing happened for "It's a 5 billion dollar market and we need only 1% of it." I think they should work on incorporating phrases too. Regardless, this is insanely great.
- WhitneyLand 12y agoI like your observation, but technically would this fall under bullshit or delusion? I guess it's a matter of definition. Does bullshit require intentionally trying to bullshit someone, or is it sufficient to speak bullshit even if you actually believe what you are saying?
- hessenwolf 12y agoI expected it to pick up Big Data. (not that I am against key-value stores)
- qnaal 12y agoI didn't see anything in the spec[1] about case insensitivity- but as long as the table is being generated programmatically, covering capitalized forms could be in order. [1]http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/gsub.htm http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/gsub.htm
- MayanAstronaut 12y agoTrue. The mapping should be in github so people could add all case variations within reason. I'd personally add (unicorn pivot|Unicorn pivot)--> "Stinking just made BS" on to it.
- drdeca 12y agothis falls victim to the scunthorp problem. e.g. the word "fragile" becomes fr<bs>.
- KhalPanda 12y agoScunthorpe*. References to that problem always greatly amuse me, I live literally down the road.
- jhou2 12y ago"internet of things" gets through the b.s. filter. Kindly fix. Thank you!
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- ygra 12y agoAlso synergy is bullshitted, but synergies not.
- antimagic 12y agoYup, personally I don't see the point of doing anything if it's only going to give me one synergy...
- wlesieutre 12y agoThe key part of having multiple synergies is that your synergies can synergize. This makes synergistics a critical component of disruptive growth hacking, as your additional synergies will scale up non-linearly. That's why at Synrgize we're making the world a better place by constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum synergistic synergization.
- geoah 12y agoOSX Chrome 40 64bit issue: Pasting text copied from anything that support formatting via html will retain font/size from copied text and thus BS font will not being used. Even Cmd+a and removing the text will retain wrong font.
- kybernetyk 12y agoThat's OS X default behavior for rich text editing controls. You're supposed to us "Paste and Match Style" instead of just "Paste" if you don't want to retain the original formatting attributes.
- pixelambacht 12y agoThanks. I think the contenteditable div was to blame. I changed this to a textarea, should fix that problem.
- bshimmin 12y agoI was disappointed it didn't censor "Meticulously hand crafted" or "Made with love in San Francisco". Otherwise, rather lovely.
- m_t 12y agoSame with "Disrupt all the things".
- raverbashing 12y agoSynergistic wasn't censored in my case (but leverage was)
- vinbreau 12y agoI was happy to see Long Tail was censored, but disappointed that Marketplace of Ideas wasn't.
- cheshire137 12y ago"Synergize" also was not a bullshit word.
- mojuba 12y agoAs well as "revolutionary". Technically "revolutionary" is when something is overthrown. So your product is revolutionary if, and only if you have already put Sony, Samsung, Apple, or whoever else out of business.
- pixelambacht 12y agoSubmit a pull request :) https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoAny use of the word "Gorgeous" should also be bullshitted (esp. when written by the makers/providers of said app).
- qznc 12y agoThere 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.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoReplace "an" with "a", assuming "a" will sometimes be pronounced "ey".
- qznc 12y agoAlso https://xkcd.com/1288/ https://xkcd.com/1288/
- vanderZwan 12y agoCan 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"
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoI'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!
- nemoniac 12y agoChrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt' https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
- rl3 12y agoWhat better way to put this font through its paces than the classic Web Economy Bullshit Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
- pixelambacht 12y agoIf 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/ http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ It's mostly command line tools, so don't worry about any artistic ability (I didn't).
- mark-r 12y agoWhy so careful to choose Droid Sans for the main font, then use Comic Sans for the substitutions? Isn't Comic Sans the property of the most lawyered-up tech company on the planet?
- pixelambacht 12y agoThe difference is that I used Comic Sans in the "design" of my censorship bars — I didn't redistribute the Comic Sans font itself.
- benoliver999 12y agoThe image at the very bottom made me laugh.
- jermo 12y agoWhat 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 http://www.sansbullshitsans.com?bs1234 That would make it easier to share my bullshit on social media and align strategies with product synergy.
- geoah 12y agoBullshit-ify bookmarklet. Create a bookmark with the following code as the url and click it on any website. :) https://gist.github.com/geoah/b2eda5b6cb7169bbbadb https://gist.github.com/geoah/b2eda5b6cb7169bbbadb ps. Chrome seems to be removing the `javascript:` part when pasting the code.
- pixelambacht 12y agoThat is awesome! I think Fx and IE might choke on the cross-domain font requestiness though.
- bzle 12y agoYessssss!! This is going to be fun.
- lmm 12y agoChrome does that to make self-XSS harder.
- phaemon 12y agoMy invented mission statement made it through unaltered. "We reinterpret the existing synergistic environment to create an overarching fluidity that will encompass both the paradoxical business lexicon and the mainstream black swansong." I hope I haven't inadvertently created some new buzzphrasing..
- grigio 12y agowhy "cloud" isnt censored?
- bhayden 12y agoneeds "internet of things" too
- WhitneyLand 12y agoI'm going to make a list of everyone who comments on this post as people I may enjoy working with on a future project.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoPlease add one exception - "Cloud" should be turned into "Butt", not bullshit. That's what the laws of the Internet say. Otherwise, amazing work!
- thebouv 12y agoGithub is hosted in the butt, so I agree with your suggestion. I'll make a bullshit pull request and upload it to the butt soon.
- mosselman 12y agoAll I got it to sensor was 'startup' and 'flow' by pasting in all the titles from HN. So I am pretty proud that I can't come up with such things more naturally :).
- RyanMcGreal 12y agoGreat concept. Improve it by adding the plural and gerund forms of the bullshit jargon words: synergies, leveraging, and so on.
- OzzyB 12y agoAnd here I was thinking I was the only one who noticed this :) Now all we need is something to "bullshitize" all those scroll-down parallax websites with a nice duotone-fullscreen-photo-at-the-top...
- plg 12y agoCan we have one for science please. novel innovative groundbreaking paradigm shift etc etc
- Gorkys 12y agoAny way to automatically apply this to techcrunch.com? I imagine not much would be left.
- Silhouette 12y agoI tried "It's like bullshit bingo but for geeks." Apparently it is quite happy to be described as such. :-)
- lwh 12y agoGreat now every HN post appears to be the same story.
- SeanLuke 12y agoNeeds work. Only about 10% of the relevant terms in Weird Al Yancovic's "Mission Statement" were marked out. http://lyrics.wikia.com/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic:Mission_Statement http://lyrics.wikia.com/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic:Mission_Stat...
- cfstras 12y agoFor even more fun, install the font and put the following in your user stylesheet: * { font-family: 'Sans Bullshit Sans', cursive !important; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility !important; }
- GhotiFish 12y agoIf you're not willing to make the jump to a font change, you can get Cloud2Butt for firefox or chrome and it will help a little.