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Design seems like such a simple, elementary thing when you think about it, but hordes of people keep getting the basics wrong, often with hilarious and side-splitting results. Buildings are hard to design, as are other objects, but we usually take the lettering and layout of sentences and phrases for granted, as though everyone will be able to understand us no matter how.we.words.our.place.
Well, the truth is, designing text so it’s readable isn’t as easy as you’d expect. There’s a system to it. There are processes that must be followed. Typography rules that ought never be broken. Except that those rules are broken all the time by some oblivious people. Bored Panda collected some of the best examples of incredibly bad text design that is wonderfully enjoyable to make fun of. From lame ads to funny posters, nodofy is safe from bad design. So upvote the best/worst fails, see if your friends can figure out what’s actually written, and let us know in the comments if you've seen design fails that compare to these ones.
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How Do I Apply?
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Noted
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Apparently Scary Jesus Is A Thing
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Five Extremely Slow Children Playing
#5
This Terribly Worded Sign I Saw Today. Sorry, I’ll Pick Up My Dog’s Poop... Wouldn’t Want To Ruin Your Child Eating Experience
#6
Well, Uh... I Guess That's A Good Motto
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Attention
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Thanks For The Advice
#9
Baby Needs Beers & Wines
#10
Experience
#11
This Habitat For Humanity Van
#12
So My Campus Had A Suicide Awareness And Prevention Day
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No Safety. Smoking First
#14
Who Else Is Donating To End Children?
#15
Don't Save A Life. Be Afraid To Give Blood
#16
Do I Push?
#17
If You Hard, Then You Hard
#18
Sorry Guys, You Can’t Let Your Pets Cook Bicycles Here
#19
Hood On vs. Hood Off
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Please Do Not Take It Home. Leave Litter Here
#21
Just Purchased This Low Quality Fried Chicken At The Grocery Store
#22
If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?
Holosexual 7 years ago
This is so stressful no I wouldn't know what accident to do, this is too much responsibility
#23
Smash Immigrants Welcome Racism
#24
Honey, I Think We're Supposed To Turn Right
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I Only Saw The Left Window At First And Got Very Confused
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This New Wall Art In My Office
#27
Our To Help Trollies You Move
#28
7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans
Hello it Smee 7 years ago
I get the stupid title, but seriously black bean smoothies sounds gross!!!!!!!
#29
So I Fart Old Dust
#30
They Are, In Fact, A Particular Sub-Species Of Rock
#31
The Design School I Graduated From Sent This Postcard Out
#32
Stand Hong With Kong
#33
When Your Gym Tryies Hard To Motivate You But Fails To Make Any Sense
#34
Truly Inspiring
#35
Vicious Inc... What?!
#36
This Monstrosity
#37
From Afar, This Sign Has A Completely Different Meaning
#38
Wet Private Clay Parties
#39
Burn Increase
#40
Never Ever Ever Beef. Frozen Always
#41
Shosple Colupis
Tai Nguyen 7 years ago
Finally! You have no idea how hard it is to find a shop selling shosple colupis!!
#42
What Does What What Does?
#43
Nono Paingain
#44
Popped Up On My Feed
Tai Nguyen 7 years ago
If being okay is not okay, is being not okay, okay? And if so, isn't that also not okay?
#45
Found At A Local Bar
#46
Friend Of A Friend Got A New Tattoo
#47
This Won The Design Competition
#48
They Must Have Added The Arrows After Realising How Steamy It Was Originally
Marcellus the Third 7 years ago
If the intention was to slow your actions down it worked very well! 10/10 success.
#49
This Sign At My International School
#50
Karaoke Thursday Here Every Sunday
#51
Get Good News One Buy
#52
I Think The Real Question Is: Why On A Toilet Seat?
#53
Book Don’t By Judge It’s A Cover At My High School
#54
I’m Call Pregnant Me
#55
I Live In Tootrno
#56
Wales Prince Of Hotel
Ryo Bakura 7 years ago
To be fair, it does look like a castle, so it could be the Prince of Hotels in that sense. And it could be in Wales, as well.
#58
What Do?
#59
70,000 Can’t Be Teeth, Wrong
Edgar Rops 7 years ago
Not to mention the fact that it's the teeth of 2,187 and a half persons
#60
You Had Meat "Hello"
#61
Aloha, Please Remove Your Hawaii
#62
New Paint On The Wall At My Gym
#63
Hear That Noise? We Are Growing. We Can Fix It Again. Apply Inside
Jenn Unicorn Popping 7 years ago
If they have to fix it again it doesn't say much for their work...
#64
Sorry, We Don't Over $20 Bills Accept
#65
I Give Up
#66
Do Not Take And Put Blue Chairs Them Onto Gym Floor! Away When Done
Andrew Wildman 7 years ago
“So I don’t take a chair but I gotta put a chair away? That’s deep, man...”
#68
Fire Keep Door Shut
#69
I Am Dond
#70
My Hometown Parade. Dear God
#71
*inhales* Everything Everything Everything Everything Everything Everything Everything
#72
If U Stay, Go, Stay Do It 4ever Today
#73
Real Trucks Not Carry Loads, Handbags
#74
Don't Worry You'll About It Be Ok
#75
Trust Onoe
#76
Power Bur To The Ger
#77
Did Hurt My Your Back Knife?
#78
This Sign I Saw While Visiting Vancouver
#80
Just Stop
#81
Either Way This Makes No Sense
#82
I Drink Game And Of I Loans Interest Is Coming Know Things
#83
Auitsumn
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Hard Do Hat Not Area Enter
#85
Babies What Drink Are Milk You
#86
Teachers Who Love Teach Children Teaching To Love Learning
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Lsatnyglueaigne Lsatnyglueaigne
#88
There Isis There. More! More?
#89
Ate At A Local Restaurant
#90
Why Did I Name My Show "The Joel With Mchale Joel Show Mchale"?
#91
Who Thought This Was Acceptable
Marcellus the Third 7 years ago
What a wasted opportunity, they had "TMI" in there which would certainly apply.
#93
How To Give Someone A Seizure
#94
Men Because Women
#95
I Would Like A Free Donation. Also, Here's My Lemonade
Anna Wentz 7 years ago
Aw but he's just a kiddo not a trained designer like some of these fails
#96
Please Sick Please Donate Kids Donate
#97
Stop Refreshing
#98
Saw This At Work Today
#100
My Eyes Just Died
#101
Always Bright Look On Side The Of Life
#102
This Sign I Saw In Someone’s Yard
#103
It's Supposed To Be A Quote From The Hamilton Musical. I Can See Life And Liberty But That's All I've Made Sense Of
#104
Always Forgotten - Missed Never
Ana-Maria Z 7 years ago
Well, if you follow the logic on this one, actually is correct. UP -> DOWN -> RIGHT -> UP...If you straighten the band you will see the words written correctly.
#105
Saw This In A Store Today
#106
Jesus Are Is Coming You Back Ready?
#107
Tread Though Our What Softly Leaves Words Can Because
#108
Catc H So Mes Tard Ust
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Demi Zwaan 7 years ago
Do people learn to read from top to bottom and then from left to right these days? In my time we went left to right, then top top to bottom...
Rissie 7 years ago
There is such a thing as separated columns, and many try to accomplish that effect. Without success :)
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Demi Zwaan 7 years ago
Do people learn to read from top to bottom and then from left to right these days? In my time we went left to right, then top top to bottom...
Rissie 7 years ago
There is such a thing as separated columns, and many try to accomplish that effect. Without success :)
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