Go away... please.

I think Minion Pro would be better.

Last edited Fri Apr 10, 2015, 10:27 AM - Edit history (1)

drives me nuts!

It's in your browser settings.

Hmmm, isn't there an enforcer somewhere nearby we could, um, have a chat with??

(Carcetti is correct, right? Just makin' sure... )

I was curious and it presented an opportunity to use some fun skills I don't use enough. An experiment. A lot of people don't immediately understand how these kinds of stylistic choices immediately alter their perception of content.

I went to GD and chose a post at random before saving the page as an HTML document so I could alter it on my local machine. I was going to alter the CSS to change all the typography to comic sans but could not find the CSS file to alter. So I used MS Paint to remove all text from the post, basically creating a palimpsest to use as a background. I then took all the text, altered it to Comic Sans and pasted it back into the palimpsest. I changed none of the content but the result greatly alters the immediate perception of it in terms of seriousness.

The post I used was this one:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026490250

(Modified work in the next response so as to visually-divide them and make the effect more apparent. It's important that you see the unedited post first.)

Manipulated content: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=749149

Note how your perception of the unaltered content is changed by something as simple as typography.

People ask me often "Why of all the things you could have dedicated your mind to (I'm a genius on the Einstein/Hawking level...a 174IQ. Not bragging, just noting.) why political theory and specifically poli. comm. as an area of study? It's so peripheral and wonkish while divorced from actual political content." It's because of things like this and how they can be used to fundamentally manipulate not only how you perceive an issue--but subsequently your values, worldview and ideology. It struck me very early on as a Poli. Theory undergraduate how this was in many senses the whole enchilada of political manipulation and the immense force for good or evil that it wielded.

Credit and Thanks to Cyrano for being my unwitting victim and hopefully a good sport.

I don't understand why it's so disliked. I wouldn't use it for work but for personal things - what's wrong with it?