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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 existence of the Higgs boson

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-co...

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

Even Wingdings?

Especially Wingdings; it really conveys the effort that went into the research.

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?r...

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/...

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

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

(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.

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.

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.

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