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Comment by afandian | Hacker News Reader

This is a subject I really want to know about. But the presentation of this this page is (no better word for it) obnoxious. I wonder why the author did it. Annoyingly the 'reader' feature of Safari doesn't work on this page.

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I actually keep a Chrome Snippet for such cases.

    var getFont = function(url) {
        var link = document.createElement('link');
        link.rel='stylesheet';
        link.type='text/css';
        link.href = url;
        document.head.appendChild(link);
    }

    getFont('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans|Roboto')

    var sheet = (function() {
        var style = document.createElement('style');
        document.head.appendChild(style);
        return style.sheet;
    })();

    sheet.insertRule('body { font: 400 16px/24px Roboto,sans-serif!important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; }', 0);

The author didn't even have the decency to make it Comic Sans.

Edit: guess this is an iOS issue...

The font stack is "Comic Sans MS",cursive,sans-serif so if you don't have Comic Sans, your browser picks a font described as "cursive" and then falls back to the default sans font.

Comic Sans is an awesome font. People act like it is an attack on their eyes, but harder to read fonts make information easier to retain: http://www.futurity.org/hard-to-read-fonts-easier-to-retain/

A quote from that: "Those who read about the aliens in an easy-to-read font (16-point Arial pure black) answered correctly 72.8 percent of the time, compared to 86.5 percent of those who reviewed the material in hard-to-read fonts (12-point Comic Sans MS or Bondoni MT in a lighter shade)."

Comic sans is one thing, an extremely light cursive script is another. It's not hard to read, it's impossible.

Plus eleventy. I wanted to read it but couldn't after a couple of paragraphs. It forced me to look into how I can adjust fonts to my liking, which isn't something you want as an author. So annoyed, much confusion

I just read it, so it isn't impossible.

I stand corrected.

It's not hard to read though. It's just overused, misused, and only serves to annoy typograpy nerds

Not just comic sans. It's that dog, the image, the meme too. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the author said "what can I do that will irritate people the most".

I'm partially complaining because it irritated me (out of selfishness), but mostly saying "why would you do that?" (out of curiosity).

>why would you do that?

Why not?

Just because the personality of the author disagrees with your sensibilities you have to appose them to the point other people have to read a comment concerning your self irritation to the authors style of presentation.

If you feel content shouldn't be on this website you can downvote it.

Edit1: Don't flag on-topic subjects (sorry mods)

I thought it had been done intentionally to make a point. Maybe I'm wrong and the author just likes dogs and comic sans. I thought it was an interesting avenue for discussion.

Why do you associate my asking questions with wanting to censor things? I don't. I'm perfectly happy with this page being on the web and this discussion existing.

I just thought it would be interesting to find out why it is the way it is.

>Why do you associate my asking questions with wanting to censor things?

I challenge your need to share selfish pointless opinions that don't contribute to the subject matter at hand. But then in a way I do advocate censorship, namely that of your off topic opinions.

Careful with the flags. By all means flag off-topic stuff but don't flag on-topic stuff of the site because you don't like it.

It seems on mobile Safari it presents in a nearly unreadable script font (well readable but with much effort). On the desktop however it shifts to Comic Sans, which is perfectly fine for reading!

https://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdoger.io%2F should work

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I really can't see past Comic Sans to read the actual content.

Some websites seem to use Comic Sans in particular so that folks just looking for form would go away: http://www.libressl.org/ (OpenBSD's OpenSSL fork) ;)

edit oh no, it seems LibreSSL changed the font! :( But I quite remember it being different (or perhaps it was another website related to the OpenBSD foundation)

They use it in their papers: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00001.html

Interesting. At least their logo is still Comic Sans :)

http://www.libressl.org/images/libressl.jpg

My advice: simply remove Comic Sans from your computer.

It's an arms race just as vicious as the adblocker situation. If people block it, eventually it'll show up as as webfont...

But my email signature!

Safari and Firefox have "reader mode" buttons built-in. Chrome has one too, but you have to enable it. For the desktop version, add --enable-dom-distiller on the command line. For the mobile version, chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode-toolbar-icon

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