/sci/ - Science & Math

comic sans

>>5505578
This is entirely subjective, any decent serif font will do.

My favourites are Minion, Sabon, and Garamond.

Courier

Your readers will feel nostalgic

Times New Roman.

Just use LaTeX and its default font. It is the standard in the scientific arena.

>>5505634
it's called computer modern roman

Trajan Pro

Wingdings, obviously.

>>5505578

Computer modern roman

I use it to write all of my papers.

>>5505598
>garamond
Mah nigga.

If you're using LaTeX, use the default OP, if not, Garamond is the way to go.

>>5505704
I use Garamond in Xetex, works a treat. I really don't like CM for some reason - it's kinda washed out and too thin.

>>5505634
>>5505641
>>5505703
>>5505704
Implying Donald Knuth knew anything about font design

Comic Sans.

>>5505717
Comic sans was the default font for scientific conference poster sessions for years.

Chiller
Old English Text MT
Jokerman
Stencil

>>5505725
That shows you how much (older) scientists know about design.

I have to use it at school (science teacher) because the dyslexic apparently find it easier to read - which is utter bullshit. But I've found a dedicated dyslexic font to use instead, as a typophile, I simply can't use Comic Sans.

>>5505717
But... that image is wrong.

If they were autistic then they probably would understand science and math beyond just the concepts.

/sci/ is mostly just full of armchair scientist hipster retards who got their accumulated science "knowledge" from pop-sci documentaries.

>>5505713
>implying that has anything to do with the fact that it looks professional

If you're going for good design, you should have something sans-serifs for a start. It helps people with poor eyesight.

>>5505736
>which is utter bullshit
comic sans meets all but one requirement of dyslexic friendly fonts (b d mirroring)

not perfect, but it scores higher than most fonts

unfortunate it looks ugly, but this isn't a dyslexic issue, it's an everyone issue

>>5505743
Perhaps for artwork or posters, but using sans serif fonts for body text is _worse_ for people with bad eyesight - the serifs help to train the eye across the page.

Serif for body, sans for titles. No exceptions.

>>5505757
>No exceptions.
at least one exception, material aimed at dyslexics

>>5505749
My grievance is with dyslexia, not Comic Sans, as in I don't believe it exists, but that's another story. And I'm not happy with the pandering to a minority and displeasing the majority.

There are far better dyslexia fonts out there, which do look pretty, or at least prettier than CS.

>>5505736
No argument here. The posters were almost universally awful.

I can see how a [poorly done] study might lead to people with reading difficulties finding comic sans easier to read. (This is a novel relief from the fonts I've been struggling with all my life.)

What's the name of the dyslexic font? Also, I wonder if there's a similarly designed font which is the opposite-- most confusing for dyslexics.

>>5505757
>serif fonts for body text is _worse_ for people with bad eyesight - the serifs help to train the eye across the page.
Nope. That's bollocks. It was once thought to be true, but studies say it's the complete opposite.

http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.301973

>>5505762
There's one called Open Dyslexia.
http://dyslexicfonts.com/

And there's one called Andika.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=andika

I find the non-dyslexic children are annoyed by Open Dyslexia, but not by Andika so much.

>>5505764
no, you have a grievance with both. one (comic sans) is valid, the other is bro-science.

I hand in my assignments in comic sans. I've got no complaints yet

>>5505782
>I've got no complaints yet
No decent grades either.

>>5505774
My grievance is being told to use Comic Sans _because_ of dyslexic children. Given the choice, I would never choose CS as it's an ugly font.

Dylexic children would be helped more by one-on-one reading practice than the pandering with 'better' fonts.

>>5505784
got top grade joe

>>5505769
I can see how the open dyslexic font would get tiresome. Reading that single page was somehow uncomfortable. That said, I see the logic behind what they do. I wonder if they could use colored sections instead of thickness to reinforce orientation.

Anyway, interesting subject, thanks. I hadn't considered it before.

Comic sans

I use Times New Roman, but I'm a bit of a traditionalist.

Fuck Arial

>>5505578
Why do you care about the "aesthetics" of a lab report? Are you some kind of faggot, OP?

A guy writing for the New York Times conducted a study where he evaluated people's subjective evaluation of the same data's credibility when it was presented in different fonts.

Among those tested, the font that was most credible was Baskerville. The least was Comic Sans

>>5505876
Yeah, that's why most incresible findings in science have been presented in Comic sans.

>>5505879
*incredible

Put this in your custom CSS so you can browse 4chan like a Real Scientist:

* {font-family: "Comic Sans MS" !important;}

>>5505890
Are you sadistic or something?

>>5505890
ouch

>>5505915
>>5505928
font colour: bright red
background: black
font: comic sans

>>5505882
To be honest they all look the same.

>>5505578
Papyrus is standard if you write a dissertation in histioy, for anything science a monospaced terminal font will suffice.

<blink> tags made the internet a wonderful place.

> not recommending New Century Schoolbook
> ishygddt

Calibri or Cambria

* {
font-family: "Comic Sans MS" !important;
font-size: 24pt !important;
color: red !important;
background: black !important;
text-decoration: blink;
}
.postInfo, .file, .file div, .file a, .postMessage {
display: inline !important;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.fileThumb, .fileThumb img {
float: none !important;
height: 1em !important;
}
br {
display: none;
}

>>5506003
GOOD GOD why did I do that

unsurpassed readability

>>5506003
Also:

:hover {
position: relative;
top: 1em;
}

>>5506022
>bolder at some parts, less bold at others
How does that help readability?

I use times new roman. My university sometimes requires reports to be written in the format of certain journals, so occasionally I have to do weird shit, like number the lines, and list the lab address, or put the abstract in bold. Huge pain in the ass.

Can't you fags just use the good ole Arial.

>>5506034

lack of boring sterility

>2013
>not writing your science with a quill and a jar of ink

>>5506121
>dip pens
>2013


Everyone looking for a good intro pen, get a Lamy Safari. $30, and it's fucking awesome as fuck. It's THE PEN for beginners.


If you come from money, a Montblanc 149 will make you the most alpha man in the room 99/100 times.

>>5505634
This is the answer.

>>5506121
>not writing in medieval latin on parchment

>>5505933
you absolute monster

>>5505792
If typeface standards allowed for me to specify colors, I would have definitely gone in that direction. Currently, in order to do something like that, I'd need to write or modify a font renderer which is currently out of my league (but definitely something I think about).

Magic cards. The best font i've ever seen,

>>5505578
comic sans

lol so much butthurt over comics sans
I think its a cool font
I thought scientist used something like terminal

sanskrit is the language of science

>>5506378
>sanskrit is the language of niggers
FTFY

>>5506384
ancient india and iran used sanskrit.
they were the cradle of science in human civilization.

>>5506384
lol'd hard

>>5506388
>they were the cradle of science in human civilization.
well they're fucking shitholes now, so i dont give a fuck about ancient history.

they just got lucky.

>>5506395

>>5506388
>>5506389

What did 5506384 say?

>>5508022
>>5506388
http://archive.installgentoo.net/sci/thread/5505578#p5506395

>>5506388
Iran used Avestan.

>>5505697
holy shit I personally know the girl in this photo, she posted this on her facebook too, where did you get this from?

Usually when you submit papers or apply for scholarships they request a certain font (often Times New Roman)

When I write my own stuff it's usually Calibri because it's the default font for Win7 and because it looks nice enough.

>>5505738
>>5505738
>If they were autistic then they probably would understand science and math beyond just the concepts.

>>5508049
>details

>>5508102
Hey man, it's history. It's like saying 'the ancient Greeks and Romans used Greek'. They may have done, but they had their own languages.

>TeX

oh god i don't know if i'd be comfortable with that. how do you guys like it compared to just Ms word processor?

>>5508139

If math, basically essential

>>5508041
Thanks a lot :)

I use Microsoft Equation Editor like a casual and you can't change the font from Cambria Math, so I use Cambria for the rest of the document to match it.

Palatino Linotype and Bookman Old Style
palatino looks especially pleasing

Comic sans ms in different colors

>>5505738
Autism does not automatically grant intelligence

>>5506355
So you'd actually have to edit the program that turns pure text into text in a font, because otherwise you're restricted to 1 colour per letter?
That sounds like quite the task.

>>5508427
Yep. There are sort-of ways around in applications: rendering the fonts in canvas, etc. For example, Beeline(http://beelinereader.com) uses js to render rainbow text for easier reading.

and otherways you can achieve something similar (for reading purposes), by coloring words in a body of text (liveink) or characters (my site does this).

>>5505764
Nice article arguing that dyslexia doesn't exist

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/sep/07/schools.uk

>>5508387

If math applets have taught me anything, this is correct.