Friday, September 12, 2008

Awful Type


The batteries in my camera were dead, so I had to take a picture of this ad with my Macbook camera. Even though it's backwards, you'll still be able to see it. 

This is an ad for a 100 Calorie Pack snack. The font is not illegible or anything like that, but it is a simple verenda font that you can use on any Microsoft Word document. It makes the ad extremely boring and unappealing to the reader. I was just flipping through Cosmo, looking at all the fonts used and this page just took me by surprise. The fact that this was more than likely designed by Nestle's graphic designer, and that someone in that position should have a wide variety of fonts at their disposal. All in all, this isn't necessarily an awful type, but the way the graphic designer used it makes it a poor choice. 


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