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showerst
What a rough day for bancomicsans.com to get hacked! Amusingly, they also give you a comic sans themed page if you search for 'Helvetica'
ChuckMcM
It would be uniquely both funny and useful if searching for a font name changed your results to that font (unlike the Comic Sans easter egg here). Imagine if you wanted to know what search results would look like in BookmanMedium.

The css hack posted earlier on HN can do that though, so its not like its impossible.

51Cards
That is what this did this morning... Googling 'Comic Sans' gave you all your results in Comic Sans. Looks like they have pulled it now.
gbelote
Thank you, I thought I was missing something really subtle
metachris
I hope you're referring to CSS Pivot :)

These are some of my favorites:

* Metafilter: http://www.csspivot.com/49KP9

* Google: http://www.csspivot.com/p950v

* Bing: http://www.csspivot.com/tUxGe

[Edit] Pro-Android peut-être: http://www.csspivot.com/fh2V1 (!)

julian37
The Google one is broken for me, shouldn't it be five characters?
ChuckMcM
"I hope you're referring to CSS Pivot :)"

Absolutely, and congratulations are in order. Don't spend it all in one place :-)

metachris
Thank you! After the first submission on HN a few people joined the project and we are now a small team of developers and designers. We think we can build something really interesting and will definitely iterate and push it forward. Feedback is always welcome!
jrockway
I didn't get it, but then I realized that I don't have any of the MS fonts installed. Good riddance.
puls
Subtle? Really?
slapshot
The real question is: why were you searching for comic sans?
plasma
Search for "recursion" for a real egg :)
mtogo
At the risk of sounding stupid, could someone explain this to me? I don't see it.
kprobst
You search for "Comic Sans", the results display in the Comic Sans font.

Sounds less funny when you explain it :)

mtogo
Ah, i must not have comic sans installed.

Thanks :)

kprobst
Anyone check the source?

    /*I liked Google better*/
    *{font-family:comic sans ms!important}
    /*before the fonts changed.*/