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I thought it was some sort of joke I'd missed out on because I'd pursuing glory in other SE's, but no... It's just community bulletin... So, is anyone going to do anything about the fact that the font is almost illegible?

As a programmer, I hate calling this a bug, but seriously Programmers Cohhunity you need to do something about this:

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Perhaps someone has asked a Sihilar question?

EDIT: It's been over two months. Could somebody please choose a legible font?

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    I suggest an official rename of the bulletin to coHHunity. But then, your request will still remain valid - simply because we'd need font change to differentiate it from boring coMMunity. Oh and I see we are prograHHers not prograMMers
    – gnat
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:18
  • Programmers.SE mods can't do much about it. Only developers can. Best post this on Meta Stack Overflow
    – Dynamic
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:18
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    @Jae - nope. This is the right place. Tagged with design should ensure that Jin sees it
    – ChrisF Mod
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:47
  • @ChrisF Thanks! Good to know!
    – Dynamic
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 23:09
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    ...so why haven't you complained that the site is called "PROGRAHHERS"?
    – Zelda
    Commented Jul 10, 2012 at 1:18
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    @BenBrocka Prograhhers? I thought this site was called Droqrahhers! Now all the requests to change the name make sense!
    – user8
    Commented Jul 10, 2012 at 6:18
  • Had never noticed, and never bugged me. Now I'm more confused about the change of direction in each letter, but I guess if that's just Laurie's hand-writing, I'll live with it.
    – haylem
    Commented Jul 11, 2012 at 1:05
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    I've always read this as "COHHUNKY BULLETIN". It's a bad font.
    – LarsTech
    Commented Aug 21, 2012 at 15:04
  • "Illegible" is illegible for me.
    – nanofarad
    Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 12:17
  • Just because you programmers can't read your own handwriting...
    – voretaq7
    Commented Nov 12, 2012 at 18:48
  • Yup @ChrisF this heta is definitely the right place for this suggestion. *8')
    – Mark Booth
    Commented Jul 12, 2013 at 10:54

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Blame it on the font used for titles:

The handwritten font in the title, top nav and section header is House Whiteboard. Yes, it is actually Hugh Laurie's handwriting. ("It's Not Lupus!")

Oh. Well then, blame it on Hugh Laurie. The limey bastard!

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  • Very well, blame assigned. I also blame him for none of the major browsers supporting the font-stretch css3 style which would have probably fixed it.
    – Peter Turner
    Commented May 1, 2012 at 3:24
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    @PeterTurner I blame America's bad taste, if you waited for House M.D. to discover Hugh Laurie, you deserve his crappy handwriting ;P
    – yannis Mod
    Commented May 1, 2012 at 14:47

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