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That font makes reading difficult.

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 "

I 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.

Comic sans is not so bad.

Covering it with artifacts makes anything painful to read.

And 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.

I can understand why you're being downvoted, but I also understand the sentiment. There needs to be a way to tell the OS "I never want to see Comic Sans again".

The link has comic sans embedded in pictures, how would an OS deal with that?

OCR all images and re-render text found to be Comic Sans. :)

I like where your head's at

If a picture contains comic sans, I don't need to view it that badly. I smell an opportunity for a new browser extension ;)

Open the fonts folder, click "comic sans", press delete.

That works for stuff like emails and documents, but apparently not for web pages (I have actually done that on my Mac).

Turn off downloadable fonts.

with that font and words like seperation, priviledge .... and the navigation! (would it have killed you to add just a tiny bit of javascript for a right and left arrow, or space, or page-down or...something) - it just comes off as just too unpolished. I rarely complain about form over substance but I didn't make it all the way through.

The OpenBSD folks are notorious for presenting extremely basic formatting on their sites, articles, presentations, etc. I think the Comic Sans is most likely a troll of other websites where the formatting, UI, etc, look like they got more polish than the content itself.

Move your mouse button, and keep clicking. Not really the biggest deal. If not having a JS-based presentation kept you from reading all the way through, you're probably the person who will never use tame() anyways, so... it is what it is. :P

It's likely I'll use tame() at some point, and I found the presentation annoying enough to read that I went to google and searched for information about it in an easier to digest format. Still though, point proved: if content is interesting enough, poor presentation won't entirely turn people off from learning about it.

No, I read through until I saw "priviledge" two or three times; along with "seperate" it was too much. It's 2015, a spell-check is not beyond anyone's editor.

"I think the Comic Sans is most likely a troll of other websites where the formatting, UI, etc, look like they got more polish than the content itself."

This issue has come up multiple times. At this point they're only trolling their own users.

Loads great in Emacs eww.el browser :)

Perhaps the author is dyslexic, and wanted an easy to read font? As far as I know, Comic Sans is the only font that is easy to read for dyslexic folk that works in about every graphical web browser.

I'm dyslexic and disagree with the assessment that Comic Sans is easier to read. I stopped after the first third slide because I couldn't read it without reading each line multiple times, assuming that was indeed comic sans.

The slides are images, so the browser's support for fonts is irrelevant.

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