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Comment by vayarajesh | Hacker News Reader

Comic sans?? lol!

This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags

While it is funny, I think using Comic Sans is actually more hipstery than ranting against it, which is too mainstream today (the same goes for blink tags).

There is a pro-type / mordern-type version of comic sans http://comicneue.com/ :)

I added it to homebrew-cask :)

https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-fonts

    brew tap caskroom/fonts
    brew cask install font-comic-neue

  Andreas-MacBook-Air:Source ajf$ brew tap caskroom/fonts && brew cask install font-comic-neue
  Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom-fonts'...
  remote: Reusing existing pack: 3465, done.
  remote: Total 3465 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
  Receiving objects: 100% (3465/3465), 496.33 KiB | 280.00 KiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (1974/1974), done.
  Checking connectivity... done.
  Tapped 0 formula
  Error: Unknown command: cask

Oh right, `brew install brew-cask` first I think

nice! :)

The correct word for "mainstream" is "surface". "Mainstream" is far too surface of a word.

Ah yes, the kind of professionalism I've come to expect from OpenBSD. They make decent software, but boy could they use some work in the PR department.

I'd rather have great software and shitty PR than the recent trend of obnoxiously beautiful landing pages for “world-changing” shitty web apps.

You can have great software without insulting half the internet and being an immature brat. A beautiful landing page is optional.

>You can have great software without insulting half the internet

You overestimate how many web hipsters there are. And annoying them is not "being an immature brat". It is precisely to discourage their involvement. Because the mentality behind the web fads are precisely why the entire world of software is layers upon layers of shit stacked on top of each other.

I'd settle for great software and an innocuous, professional landing page. Let's have standards, people.

libressl.org is the most professional landing page a project could ever have, what more do you want blink tags hero unigs, marketing spots, slideshows??

Every sentence and paragraph on that page is meaningful, unlike _any_ modern web crap app/mvp where visitor has to click and mock about just to find what the hell the page/project is about. Here its in the first sentence and you cant miss it.

And they could make it look decent by replacing Comic Sans with Arial, Times or something similarly simple. You can't tell me they used Comic for any reason but to annoy people.

They used Comic to make a joke about annoying hipsters, not to actually annoy anyone.

May be you missed to read the footer of the page.. the last line, Infact they are also trying to make the same point as you said (why not use Arial or Times and get rid of comic sans)

With a PhD in architecture, design and branding, there's something about the extreme simplicity of OpenBSD's web pages that I find really attractive. "Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away".

I am not sure if anyone noticed the footer of the page. It not the PR's fault or anything to blame PR. Its just a link for donation :).. they are trying to improve the standards of the web by wanting/helping to get rid of comic sans font

I just donated because of that little line at the bottom of the page. I think it is that extra character from the OpenBSD team that I love...

The fact that are are true and opinionated and no bullshit. Real character is hard to find these days.

i guess it was designed by theo@ himself )

I like the fact that OpenBSD has professional implementation but unprofessional presentation. It makes it easy to distinguish from FreeBSD.

Mine doesn't show up in comic sans. However, the link to OpenSSL is to We're Not Gonna Take It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRCGDUsdRDU)... This all seems like a joke to me.

Check the footer (last line) of the page.. its just a page for donation to get rid of comic sans :)

The OpenBSD Foundation donation page mentions and links back to this site...

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