Category Archives: Typography

Ambiguous Letterforms Yield N-word

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

This is a poster for a show for Vanilla Fudge. The bubbly, melty type seems appropriate for a 1960s psychedelic rock band… until I try to actually read the words.
“Fudge” is clear enough, but to my eyes, the “V” in “Vanilla” looks a lot like a “Y”, and the “L”s look like “G”s. Given the [...]

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Bad Information Design: Recipe For Disaster

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Alton Brown, host of the Food Network’s cooking show Good Eats, came up with the best chocolate chip cookies ever. However, to achieve chewy nirvana, you have to slog through a recipe whose failure to even make an attempt at user empathy or to follow common sense is almost impressive.

The first problem is common to [...]

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