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Great idea, and I'd love to buy it - if only it weren't in Comic Sans!


Keith is a doodler/amateur cartoonist, and this periodic take is in that style, so the font is deliberate. He was happy to see Fabiola Gianotti’s announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson in Comic Sans.

Also, it’s really Comic Relief, as he wanted it to be OFL.

https://elements.wlonk.com/Dev/MakingDerivativeWorks.htm


Download the PDF and change the font.


Change the font of a PDF without the source? Sure buddy, just give me a research team and five years.

Edit: Whoops, apparently this is trivial. TIL.


   pdf2ps a.pdf
   vim a.ps             # take a look at it, maybe you see how the font is called
   cat a.ps | sed 's/Comic Sans/Times/g' > b.ps    # may be slightly more complex
   ps2pdf b.ps


The PDF has Illustrator Editing Capabilities, so it can be easily edited in Illustrator.


Doesn’t seem to be Comic Sans, it’s a bit more regular. Some other comic-like font perhaps.




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