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This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way. See e.g. http://se.inf.ethz.ch/courses/2013a_spring/JavaCSharp/lectur...

It's readable enough for students to refer back to, but ugly enough that they prefer listening instead of reading along.

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Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell committee) also formats all his lecture slides in Comic Sans: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bd1ia/spj_and_com...

OpenBSD people have "weaponized" Comic Sans by confronting them about font bikeshedding instead of caring about what actually matters: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.ht...

In fact it's been so long since I've seen anyone use it for powerpoint slides (or anything really) that when I came across the "Wearing the hair shirt" talk recently I was hit with a nice nostalgic feeling: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing...

This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way.

That's super interesting. Do you know where you learned that?

(Interestingly, your comment ranks #1 (after some videos) in Google's results for «bertrand meyer slide format».)

I took several of his lectures during his tenure at ETH Zurich (some time between 2008 and 2014) and it came up at some point.

I'm surprised companies don't typeset their EULAs in Comic Sans.

But on second thought, I guess users don't read them anyway.

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