Sans Bullshit Sans

Sans Bullshit Sans

Our thought leader wants to leverage synergy and drive a paradigm shift with a best of breed, real time solution at scale.

Sans Bullshit Sans is a free font that stamps “bullshit” over 237 buzzwords as you type. Everything on this page is set in it.

Try it yourself Download the font

Paste in your worst marketing blurb

Or the last all-hands deck. Or your boss’s LinkedIn bio. Each buzzword gets stamped the moment its last letter lands.

Matching is case sensitive, so “Synergy” at the start of a sentence slips through.

The 237 words it won’t print

Hover or tap a stamp to see the word underneath.

How it works

Fonts can contain ligatures: rules that replace a run of letters with a single glyph. That’s how “f” and “i” fuse into “fi” in a well-set book.

Sans Bullshit Sans abuses the same feature. Its ligature table lists 237 buzzwords, and each one maps to a hand-drawn, Comic Sans-flavoured stamp: “b.s.”, “bullshit”, or, for the truly long-winded, “bull fucking shit”. No scripts, no filters, no server. The bullshit is caught by the typeface itself, anywhere that renders OpenType ligatures.

The ligatures are marked as required, so there’s no off switch in CSS. The bullshit filter at the top of this page works by swapping in a copy of the font with the ligature table removed.

Put it on your own site

Free under the Apache License 2.0. Install it on your computer, or drop it into a stylesheet. 

@font-face {
  font-family: "Sans Bullshit Sans";
  src: url("SansBullshitSans.woff2") format("woff2");
}

body {
  font-family: "Sans Bullshit Sans", sans-serif;
}

Where this came from

Sans Bullshit Sans was made in 2015 by Roel Nieskens (PixelAmbacht), based on Droid Sans, as the worked example in his blog post about how ligatures work. It lived at sansbullshitsans.com, under the tagline “Leveraging the synergy of ligatures™”.

That domain no longer belongs to the project and now redirects to malware. Please don’t visit it. This site keeps the font available and working, with the same joke and a new coat of paint.