CERN mocked for Comic Sans font in Higgs boson 'God particle' presentation

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Scientists in search of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," were ridiculed on Twitter for their use of the Comic Sans font in a presentation summarizing their findings.

The scientific press is accustomed to hearing news of great intellectual merit from the European Organization for Nuclear Research, abbreviated in French as "CERN." It operates the Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator on Earth, which, experts say, may help to unlock some of the biggest mysteries of physics. However, scientists made a rather elementary Internet faux pas by writing their presentation in the offending typeface.

Comic Sans was designed by Vincent Connare in 1994 for Microsoft. Reminiscent of comic book text, its rounded edges project a jovial and inviting feeling, making it a popular typeface choice early on for amateur and professional graphic designers alike. But as the digital age matured, so did many people's tastes in fonts. Now Comic Sans is largely regarded as informal and childish in certain Internet circles. BanComicSans.com, a website bent on sinking the style, equates using Comic Sans with wearing a clown suit to a black tie event.

Comic Sans isn't without its fans, however. A new Tumblr blog called Comic Sans Project posts familiar corporate logos refashioned using the--at least in the designers' eyes--beloved font. McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Subway sandwiches are among the brands to get the Comic Sans treatment.

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[dctcool]

Whoever wants to discredit high caliber scientific research over something as trivial as the font being used ought to be locked inside the particle colder chamber

For Science

[HiAdrian]

The scientists are busy with work, hence can't give a shit about the Apple hipster crowd, who are known for their obsession with design and fads, while in return lacking any substance.

[KIFulgore]

I'd say the scientists at CERN can use whatever font they want... seriously.

[termanedieter11]

Science should stay Times New Roman. Hear hear

[david10808]

Seriously though fuck comic sans

[ClamCrunchy]

At least they didn't use Wingdings.

[jessie245]

At least it wasn't written with the Wingdings font...

[shaider1982]

@zintao It just means that God is actually a distributed one. So pantheists rule the this one. Don't be such a prick though.

[zintao]

@agentdemo first, where the fuck is this god??? And second, according to popular religion there most certainly are particles of him (I'd like to add she or it but since religion was created by men in the most literal meaning of the word god of course was also created to be a man) on earth... Hence I would still go for the name "anti-god particle".

[HiggsBisons]

@kouotsu

I asked Leon Lederman about it once when we were waiting in line for coffee, and he said he couldn't remember how he chose the name for the book. So either he's too sick of the question and didn't feel like talking about it, or the story is apocryphal; I'd guess it's the latter.

[agentdemo]

@zintao that's not wat i meant accually, because there IS a God, and there are absolutely NO particles of him here on earth