{"id":54291,"date":"2020-03-19T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=54291"},"modified":"2024-04-19T05:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T12:36:19","slug":"design-fails-10-times-typography-ruined-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/design-fails-10-times-typography-ruined-the-day","title":{"rendered":"Design Fails: 10 Times Typography Ruined the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typography, the art and science of displaying letters to make the written word read well and also visually pleasing, is a fickle beast. While you naturally don’t expect design fails<\/strong><\/a> to happen when you arrange type for graphic design, they occur with enough frequency to make you shake your head.
\nDon’t these brands and people review their designs before making them public for all to see? Sadly, the answer is no, but that’s good news for all of us who have a sense of humor.
\nTypography design fails<\/a> catch you by surprise, just when you least expect them to. Maybe it’s those letters that just happened to suffer from too little kerning<\/a>, or perhaps it’s that wordmark logo that just wasn’t thought out well enough in advance.
\nWhatever the reason, these font fails proved to be mighty embarrassing for their creators. Let’s relive this awkwardness all over again with 10 times typography ruined the day.

<\/span>1. Our Food’s Really Not That Bad…I Swear!<\/span><\/h2>

Opening a restaurant is one of the hardest business misadventures you’ll ever get yourself into. All you have to do is look at the countless examples of restaurants<\/a> gone bad on shows like Robert Irvine’s Restaurant: Impossible<\/em> and Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hrs. to Hell and Back<\/em> to appreciate this inarguable fact of life.
\nIn all fairness, the failing restaurants on those shows usually suffer from a mix of bad:<\/p>