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Pre-eminent Ruby hipster _why used to hand-write code samples that looked pretty cool. Could that be an option using some suitable hand-writing font?

Some examples:

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/hpricot-aby.p...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/a-personal-ex...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/view-as-hpric...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/keepvid.png

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/randfeed.png

and not quite in the same theme but whatever:

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/aside-from-th...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/gem-mirror-on...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/irb-lex.gif



I used the simpsonfont for that: http://codebubble.heroku.com/


Very nice. Though it doesn't apply the font for me on Firefox 19, Ubuntu Linux. Chromium works though.

Checking out Google Web Fonts for appropriate hand writing fonts I noticed that all the good/suitable ones seems to be by the same person, Kimberly Geswein. I can't seem to link to all her fonts via a URL but searching for "Kimberly" brings them all up.


The code is over 2 years old, I did it on a whyday back then in about 10minutes. Had no time to make it work across all browsers.




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