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Comic Sans fans?

I found this funny tidbit in the IconBuffet CSS:

font-family: "Comic Sans", "Lucida Grande", "Verdana", sans-serif;

The first font being Comic Sans? Man, right now I am so happy that Micro$oft decided to append "MS" to the Comic Sans name, because then that font will never get chosen by the CSS, thankfully. It's a good joke though, and I really hope it was only intented to be a nice little joke, and not to actually be seriously used. Funny, though! :P

On another note, does anybody know what syntax we can use here to customize our text? Strong tag? Em tag? <code>Code tag?</code>

Posted by electricnet on Mar 21, 2007 in Blab | 28 comments

iconmaster on Mar 21, 2007

What? You're not getting the Comic Sans version of the site? It's bee-yoo-tiful.

For formatting, just use simple html: , , , etc.

Jahnoth on Mar 21, 2007

All I can say is: LOL

iconmaster on Mar 21, 2007

Oops: <em>, <strong>, <a href>

iconmaster on Mar 21, 2007

And now every comment on this blog will be in bold italics. My bad.

Sly on Mar 21, 2007

Is there a guide to which tags work?

iconmaster on Mar 21, 2007

iconmaster on Mar 21, 2007

That's pretty much it.

You can try <blockquote> too.

Sly on Mar 21, 2007

Bah!! Chefs causing problems !!

Sly on Mar 21, 2007

Ok :)

Sly on Mar 21, 2007

blockquote

Sly on Mar 21, 2007

Ok, don't use blockquote ... :lol:

electricnet on Mar 21, 2007

Lol, let's just say I would prefer ye olde Lucida Grande.

electricnet on Mar 21, 2007

josh on Mar 21, 2007

And I can close them. : )

josh on Mar 21, 2007

I thought. Way to go Marstall.

justG on Mar 21, 2007

When you figure out stickies, this deserves to be stickied just for the grin factor. This is hilarious. =]

.g, who's bummed about the lack of pagination (yes, she knows it's coming) since she's not visited IB in 2 days. =(

etherbrian on Mar 21, 2007

When I speak in bold italics I sound like a superhero!

ChickAzul on Mar 21, 2007

aww I <3 comic sans

patronus4000 on Apr 27, 2007

Ahh! Comic Sans! I don't like that font. In fact, I hate it. I don't understand why teachers seem to love it so much for all the handouts they give us. It's as if they don't know there's a world of fonts out there! =O

I don't see the Comic Sans version either. I see the Verdana one. I don't even know whether I want to see Comic Sans splattered all over the web. XD

patronus4000 on Apr 27, 2007

Okay, I just edited the CSS in Firefox. Comic Sans looks horrible on IconBuffet. I think I'll just stick with Verdana.

redwolf on Apr 28, 2007

Having a couple of friends who are teachers, the answer is no, they don't know there's a world of fonts out there. Their knowledge of fonts is limited to whatever came pre-installed on their computer and Comic Sans is different to Arial and easy to read on printouts.

I'm sure they're baffled why the people with any knowledge of fonts are plotting to beat them to death with a Comic Sans question mark and tilde character.