Comic Sans, Bitch(en)

June 15, 2010 3:05 PM

Font Pony! I suggest using the same special CSS from the Famous Comic Sans Thread on the current Comic Sans Thread and any other Comic Sans Thread. As well as maybe any typography thread that mentions Comic Sans more than X times?
posted by oneswellfoop to Feature Requests at 3:05 PM (33 comments total)

done!
posted by pb (staff) at 3:13 PM on June 15, 2010 [10 favorites]

Ha! Awesome.
posted by brundlefly at 3:14 PM on June 15, 2010

Love it. :)
posted by zarq at 3:15 PM on June 15, 2010

Insta-pony-sterical.
posted by Devils Rancher at 3:18 PM on June 15, 2010

pb, can you make it start, too?
posted by boo_radley at 3:20 PM on June 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

When other people get special treatment it diminishes my own specialness.

/cries
posted by GuyZero at 3:25 PM on June 15, 2010

Oh! Please make it start! PLEASE!
posted by maudlin at 3:27 PM on June 15, 2010

Since this thread is about the Comic Sansification of Comic Sans threads, shouldn't it also be in Comic Sans?
posted by FelliniBlank at 3:31 PM on June 15, 2010 [2 favorites]

Does anyone remember a really touching story involving comic sans which was posted as a comment and sidebarred a while back? I've scanned through the linked threads and can't spot it.
posted by Captain Najork at 3:37 PM on June 15, 2010

Here, Captain Najork.
posted by maudlin at 3:38 PM on June 15, 2010

Najork: here.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 3:39 PM on June 15, 2010

DAMN YOU MAUDLIN
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 3:39 PM on June 15, 2010

Captain Najork, it's linked in the current thread. Here's the original.
posted by lonefrontranger at 3:39 PM on June 15, 2010

bah. stupid IE6 slowass fracking mumblemumbleshittybrowser...
posted by lonefrontranger at 3:40 PM on June 15, 2010

:P DNAB.

(Please, pb, make it start? Don't make me go looking for mushrooms out back. It just isn't the same.)
posted by maudlin at 3:40 PM on June 15, 2010

Yep there it is, my bad shoulda clocked it. What a tale...
posted by Captain Najork at 3:44 PM on June 15, 2010

If this happens automatically with every thread tagged "comicsans," it would be a hilarious joke to play on your mutual contacts.
posted by roll truck roll at 3:45 PM on June 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Clearly pb's kryptonite is CSS ponies...

(reutrns to fortress to plot CSS pony related evil)
posted by edbles at 3:45 PM on June 15, 2010

I first thought it said "fart pony," which also would've been pretty awesome.
posted by infinitywaltz at 3:58 PM on June 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Also redundant, as anyone who ever spent time around ponies could tell you.
posted by maudlin at 4:05 PM on June 15, 2010

Wow. That thread actually hurts my soul now. And to think I was trying to stand up for it (given the right circumstances)... Make it stop, please?
posted by Ghidorah at 4:14 PM on June 15, 2010

Is this something for which I would have to disable my own browser CSS convert-to-Helvetica option? Because as far as I'm concerned, the entire web has basically been Helvetica for the past ten years or so. What is this Comic Sans of which ye speak?
posted by meehawl at 4:24 PM on June 15, 2010

Helvetica is the one that has crazy symbols instead of letters right?

HAMBURGLAR
posted by edbles at 4:29 PM on June 15, 2010

Is this something for which I would have to disable my own browser CSS convert-to-Helvetica option? Because as far as I'm concerned, the entire web has basically been Helvetica for the past ten years or so.

That sounds so boring.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 4:30 PM on June 15, 2010

Eight minutes to execution! THANK YOU PB! That's the fastest one of my suggestions here has ever been implemented! Then again, it's the ONLY one of my suggestions here has ever been implemented...
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:51 PM on June 15, 2010

The Devil Tesla: "That sounds so boring"

It's all done in the best possible taste. Occasionally I relent and display everything in Gill Sans, just to mix it up.
posted by meehawl at 6:00 PM on June 15, 2010

No hideous font love on the iPad. Does anyone know any amusing anecdotes about Party LET?
posted by ecurtz at 6:13 PM on June 15, 2010

oneswellfoop, you're welcome, but to be honest it was all mathowie behind the scenes. I just knew which code to change. If it was up to me the whole site would be in 30pt. all-caps Impact.
posted by pb (staff) at 6:42 PM on June 15, 2010 [6 favorites]

Occasionally I relent and display everything in Gill Sans, just to mix it up.

You wacky rascal, you!
posted by Devils Rancher at 9:04 PM on June 15, 2010

If it was up to me the whole site would be in 30pt. all-caps Impact.

Formula for a successful Wednesday Morning:

Go to your profile.
Set fonts to Impact size to 30.
Laugh maniacally while co-workers look on worriedly.
posted by edbles at 5:30 AM on June 16, 2010

There are times when I just love this place. Pb, you, sir, are Da Man.
posted by theora55 at 6:56 AM on June 16, 2010

i can't even read that thread except via recent activity or some such

this is not funny
posted by infini at 12:07 PM on June 16, 2010

I just changed my profile settings to Impact size 30. Now that's funny, even in Recent Activity.
posted by maudlin at 1:23 PM on June 16, 2010