What is the best way to hide a field visually?

[Guido1982]

I want to hide some fields, purely visually. So I want users to have the same rights on those fields, I want workflows and other code to be able to have the same rights on the fields as they have now: I only want to have the fields hidden from the regular detailview. Now I can set their 'presence' column to 1, but that doesn't feel like the way to go. I don't want to disable them in the profile, since that might disable access to the fields for that profile, while it can be needed for some background processes.

So: purely visually. What is the best way to do that.