[christofd]

regarding comic sans use at CERN... often found that scientists like hideous designs. it's a way of saying that we work on serious stuff.

a lot of sites at MIT, CMU have that mark... the more prestigious, the uglier.

of course it has to be a certain style of ugly.

[captaintacos]

I'd say not just scientists at CERN. This applies to most (nah... ALL) scientists: researchers, PhDs, Professors, etc. They use very hideous design, or more accurately, nothing at all, on their research webpages. And I am talking about a geocities-esque type of "design" here. Sometimes I even wonder if there is an implicit rule around that goes on the lines of "real researchers must PRETEND they just learned html".