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# Irrational font hatred!
Just got a CV sent in, written entirely in Comic Sans MS!!! argghhhh I hate it hate it hate it...

PS does any kind person remember that ace tiny font that was mentioned on here a month or so ago?
(I helped save b3ta! curry monster, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:19, archived)
# sevenet7
or silkscreen are good 'uns.

cal's got some ickle fonts for download over at iamcal.com
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:21, archived)
# ta everyone
that is the one I was thinking of too
(I helped save b3ta! curry monster, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:30, archived)
# argh!
i *hate* comis sans. am seriously considering uninstalling it. but writing a CV in it? that's just stupidity. also considering uninstalling times new roman, incidentally.
(I helped save b3ta! evil pixie, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:21, archived)
# silkscreen is lovely
from www.kottke.org

dare i ask what the position applied for was? please don't say "web developer"
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:22, archived)
# bloody well hope it wasn't a
Web developer..

god the wankers that use that title when all they do is write the copy on the page.. I've heard the fuckwits call themselves web designers before as well.

Fucknuts.
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:27, archived)
# ahem
I am a Web Developer. You got a problem with that? I didn't choose the title you know.
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:30, archived)
# don't have a problem
as long as you have actually written some html or have actually designed a layout.

if you still call yourself a web developer and all you have done is written copy (in word) you can go get some hummus and come back
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:38, archived)
# oooh get you
I've written more HTML and designed more websites than you've had hot handbags my lad. Not to mention kittens.
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:41, archived)
# fair enuff
you are full justified my dear sir

(not the only hmtl coder mr friend i taught web design for a year m8... and not using a package.. pure hand coding...)

I just hate the twats who are copy writers who claim to be web developers as some of their text was on a web page..
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 15:02, archived)
# Web programmer is another
that amuses me - some seem to count HTML as a language.
Web Programmer = guys like the Apache guys as far as I am concerned.
(I helped save b3ta! bigdave, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:32, archived)
# I thought it
was a language, or am I being spoons again.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:36, archived)
# it is a language
but a markup language, not a programming language. you're not being spoons.
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:39, archived)
# it's a
markup language, not a programming language...
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:39, archived)
# Nope
HTML is content with some formatting information (ie. a document), in the same that a Word or PDF file is a document.
(I helped save b3ta! bob dinosaur, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:42, archived)
# I
managed to get my job title changed to Senior Developer from Web Developer... too pigeonholed for my liking. And yes, HTML is a language of sorts. Though not in the programming sense....
(I helped save b3ta! Mr Spleen Can do better. C-, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:47, archived)
# it was
an unsolicited CV for a senior managerial position of some sort.
(I helped save b3ta! curry monster, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:32, archived)
# mail him back, ask him if he has pointy hair
=)
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:36, archived)
# senoir management
and he did it in comic sans?

get him in for an interveiw and then laugh at him for the entire meeting and they say sorry, you are not what we are looking for.
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 15:19, archived)
# was the
entire CV done as a comic? that would be great...
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:24, archived)
# I considered writing
an "honest CV" part of my website (explaining how I have spent most of my life sitting on my arse doing nothing and sometimes getting paid for it.) Then I remembered prospective employers might actually look at my website.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:26, archived)
# No, but
The best CV I received from a designer was done as a packet of washing powder.

Very nice it was, too...
(I helped save b3ta! Natt, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:28, archived)
# My favourite CV feature?
Under 'software skills':
Internet Explorer version 4, 5 *and* 6


always impresses me...
(I helped save b3ta! Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:24, archived)
# Send it back
"That was funny!"
My boss has a crippling deficiency which makes him use 'that' font on everything.
(I helped save b3ta! helmetcream, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:25, archived)
# I thought everyone knew
CV's were to be done in 48pt Impact Bold.

Fire up the Linotype dad, I got a CV coming!
(I helped save b3ta! bigdave, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:26, archived)
# Amen!
I worked for a company where everyone used Comic (bloody) Sans on their presentations... I insisted on using Verdana just as a protest.
(I helped save b3ta! galanthis, Wed 11 Sep 2002, 14:29, archived)