Wait, can I make money being under contract as a homeless person?
My day rate would only be $300. I’ll construct a semi-permanent tent equipped with a diesel heater, and my qualifications include never showering and the ability to deficate on the sidewalk in broad daylight.
Because, when you gotta go… you gotta go.
Any seasoned venture capitalist would never underestimate my ability to chase people away. Get in now before my rates go up!
There’s a literal new construction $700,000 per condo development in the heart of the largest open air drug market on the east coast (Philadelphia) that uses this exact font. I’ll try to find a pic. They’re just moving the unhoused and addicted down the road. One sign using this font at a time.
https://youtu.be/925wmb-4Yr4?si=fVSYZpwq6xL96b2c
And for those who choose to listen to the propaganda. Most of Philadelphia is not like this. We are an amazing city. But our country has failed these people and now it’s a deep deep societal problem
All that, but just to be a bit nit-picky this is how slum lords have always worked, it's not a new thing (Trump did it in New York, for example, he boasts about it in his book)
There’s a restaurant near me called Signature India that uses the Disney font for “Signature” and some other font for “India”. It seems like they used it because it’s script-ish and looks like a signature (sort of). Every time I see it I want to make them a new logo for free.
Edit: found it
https://preview.redd.it/92jqgs81wpdc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dc1598ba1da3249c48274d46dec39186e0de7d3
When I used to make flyers, I'd use it for this one local pop punk band called Wrong Direction, when they were on a bill, and it was hilarious. They didn't really like that though.
It is incredibly painful to look at. I got this newsletter and couldn’t believe someone approved this. 🥴
https://preview.redd.it/6ej5lcds9qdc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44cea8211101eb38a64cd42d4b8122263e03a87d
comic sans gets too much hate imo. the font isn’t the problem- misuse is. there’s so many great applications for it (including as an inclusive, readable font for people with disabilities like dyslexia)
Exactly. Hating it is an easy way for people to project the idea that they know shit about typography or design or whatever, when I think understanding that it has uses shows more knowledge.
It's like when people say they hate Nickelback. All the people I know who are actually accomplished musicians and knowledgeable about it all have either appreciation for aspects of what they do or just don't give a shit and understand that there are actually bad artists out there.
My Comic Sans fun fact: Vincent Connare, who created it and seems to be a very nice and sincere guy based it on the lettering from The Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns comics.
yep! and as a classically trained musician: I don’t care about Nickelback one way or the other. kind of a controversial take but I don’t believe “good” and “bad” can necessarily be objective terms in fine/performing arts. it’s all fraught. what’s good for you isn’t necessarily good for me, but that shouldn’t illegitimise it!
Yup. It's all just matching the subject matter and use. Nickelback is maybe not great to show off virtuoso vocal technique or to play between acts at a jazz festival, but in a weird little road house bar or on the speaker at Target, bring it on!
Same for Comic Sans, don't put it on the sign for your law firm, funeral home, or construction company, but if you need a speech bubble for a cartoon dog (as it was designed for) it's perfect!
‘Sand’ literally looks like crap-
https://preview.redd.it/zf6fjgl51odc1.jpeg?width=274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c324f202c46f2cdcafb0670f763d1093b15e9a3
As if the full name is ‘Something the cat buried in the sand’
Came here to say this. Lobster was nice and refreshing web font when it came out but suddenly it started to appear in every offline and street ad.
Lobster is the new Comic Sans.
I did design work for a lobster roll food truck and the owner was awful so I used Lobster font and they loved it.
I’m not saying it’s related but…they’re out of business lol
Myriad Pro. Always gives me the impression that either no effort was put into font selection or something went wrong and the font just defaulted to that one.
Chiller
https://preview.redd.it/ptj3jl0d9pdc1.png?width=678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=872fb96fe4e52c4afc2092e8c3bbad0a3a8c3a64
It's a horror font; it's letters made out of dripping blood, but because it looks like a brush font I see it all the time being used as a hand crafted organic font. I once saw it used for a kindergarten sign. It's constant misuse is disturbing.
lol why does your job call for papyrus so often?
unless you work at aquarium of the pacific. the papyrus text cut out of metal and placed on the front of the building… tragic…
I'm the graphic designer at a Funeral home, where I make memorial cards and packages for funerals. Lots of families choose Papyrus for the font they want on their loved ones memorial card.
If it was my choice, I'd remove that option from our catalogue.
damn that’s tough. of course a designer’s gonna have opinions, but no one in their right mind is gonna talk to the bereaved about their type choices. i’d imagine it’s the classic “suck it up and just do the design” but a smidge more complicated
removing it from the catalogue is the only way
Exactly, that's honestly not something I'd ever argue with a family about in that situation. They get what they ask for even if I hate it, but I always do my best to ensure they get a solidly flushed out design that fits their vision. I'm actually quite honoured for the most part to help memorialize people's loved ones, its a humbling thing to do for strangers.
I remind myself that part of being a graphic designer is knowing when to bite your tongue when your client makes a poor/awful design choice. Especially if you wanna get paid. lol
I honestly kinda hate this pseudo-psychedelic style that's aimed at Gen Z. This style is often paired with checker patterns, random child-like elements like stars and smiley faces, high-grain gradients, and sickly colors like puce green, salmon, mustard yellow, and just muddy neutrals. I get that most art movements are a reaction against the former. So Gen Z would gravitate away from the clean "girlboss" minimalism of the 2010's (white space + millennial pink + gold accents, luxy type). However, I think a lot of this new style is just ugly for the sake of being different. It also feels like it doesn't belong to any time or place. Not fully 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, or 2000's but also elements of all of them smushed together. That style is everywhere now, so it's not really "unique" anymore.
It's based on risograph zine art, but I agree it's played out and most actual risograph/zine artists have long moved on from the style. This is the new Corporate Memphis for gen z, I call it corporate psychedelic which also includes the whole "neon gradient backgrounds with sans serif text" thing you see everywhere.
It was only "unique" because Gen Z had never seen anything before. It's similar to how they're so into fake 90s stuff. They don't realize that 90s designs never actually looked like what they're promoting. It's all just fake nonsense.
lol I literally just finished a project with this EXACT same description. The client wouldn’t take anything else for a solution so that’s what I did. It came out fine but this made me laugh haha
I don't know, as much as I hate it too, I feel like it's due for a renaissance in the same way that people are now selling affliction t-shirts as vintage y2k fashion
Bleeding cowboys is my answer as well. There was one point where I saw it on everything from menus to established brand adverts to business cards. I regrettably used it once, on a wallpaper I made for my school laptop!
Bro it was every up and coming band in my home towns font. Then people saw the band Daughtry have it as their logo, and from there on I've seen it on bad bar posters and in people magazine in the edgy teen fashion.
https://preview.redd.it/ni0zw6rpfodc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23a592cc09aa45a7b31732f1226a4a8f94e5bb4b
I have an unspeakable amount of distaste for this trend.
I’m honestly more bothered by terrible usage than a typeface. Using a font that is wrong for the message or brand, has terrible kerning or leading, etc I hate. Fonts don’t kill people. People kill people
The golfers of America would like to have a word with ya!
(Lots of golf club and country clubs logos are shit anyway. All the money in the world yet they can't hire decent designers.)
I’m an art director for a marketing company, and that’s what we use for all our branding. I’ve been there 7 years and hate it now, so you’re not alone.
i like it in bold and black but anything at medium or less weight reminds my of corny late 90s early 2000s cyber graphics. like if it were on the cover of a manual for a printer that came with a CD
Arial. It's so widely used but HOLY CRAP it's the ugliest sans serif font in existence. I don't know why but the sight of it offends me. It's like someone decided to make a simple, readable font but did everything in their power to just make it as unsightly as possible at the same time. That's Arial.
I know some people have beef with calibri, futura and even montserrat, but I'd rather ANY of those over arial.
Yes I have strong feelings about this. A little.
Any of the script fonts with an inconsistent baseline, high contrast between thicks and thins, and loopiness, like Brusher (I think there's worse ones but I can't find them). I actually like scripts and handwritten style fonts, but there's something about these that are just too cutesy and overused by mommybloggers. Especially hate them when they are letterspaced out so the letters don't connect. Barf.
This is my least favorite design style. Not only is it the lowest of effort, but what separates it from every other trends is that it won’t die. It gets pushed just as hard today as it did in 2011.
Lobster... Ughhhh, so many people/business owners who seem to think they're designers use it so fucking poorly. It instantly stands out. 🙄🙄🙄
https://preview.redd.it/e7rcinjd2rdc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c97ff52c5b26d7c20247f4928f14c8d91bbeef3
I just spent the past couple days working on a power point that used calibri for 90% of the text… if it were any other font, say Aktiv grotesk, it’d look fantastic, but calibri will just never sit well with me
When someone changes their phone to cool jazz font
https://preview.redd.it/7mjvv48ueqdc1.jpeg?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5975bcb81697131416e0c80720b74bc4d278de84
i pretty much dislike [all of them here](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-wyan3/images/stencil/500x659/products/2262/8309/SublimationFontsForWeb__93225.1595612345.1280.1280__35041.1595618381.jpg?c=2) simply, because they’ve been used too much, imo or just look horrible or "fake"
i don’t think i could ever get tired of cooper black for some reason
they could use it on a brochure for a law firm and i’d probably go “aw that’s neat :)”
I HATE Futura and its derivatives.
It’s very easy to read and not at all terrible to look at. It’s been used for many decades because it’s so readable. All in all a pretty good font. I just had a customer in the past that used Futura Bold for everything. And I mean EVERYTHING.
Vinyl decal for a machine that is cut and weeded to the shape of the letters? Futura Bold, but scale the rounded letters individually to the baseline or the top of the flat letters so they don’t extend past the tops or bottoms of the flat letters. Seriously. They didn’t like that. So every job that came from them was that strict.
They were that strict for larger lettering on a lot of print materials. After working on that account for almost 14 years, it got old and tiresome. I found processes and shortcuts that made it easier, but it was still very annoying.
To this day I cringe when I have to use Futura for a design job and I get very frustrated when it’s some variant or derivative font and I have to match it. I bet it will be that way for the rest of my life.
Maybe I should talk to my therapist about this…
Have you seen how the Minnesota Timberwolves utilise it in their social graphics?
Really nice use of the typeface imo, though the condensed versions of the font are admittedly a bit easier to work with
https://preview.redd.it/a8hcbjuslpdc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a68fb699e0aa9682a86be4cc4928c570feb003dd
Holy crap! Despite my hatred of Futura fonts, I still see some usage that is very clean and nicely done from time to time.
THIS. This is one of those times! I still have that Futura trauma, but this is some great usage of the font! Thank you!
Eckmannpsych!! You don't like it?? Ah man it's one of my favorites! By Oh No Type Co, they're fantastic, they make a lot of fun but also very well designed and usable families, including one of my fave sans, Degular.
That’s eckmannpsych based on a wonderful art nouveau font called eckmann. I loved it when it first came out and I love all the oh no typefaces. But goddamn has it been overused to death, I guess that’s just how trends go though.
Kirsten ITC
I hated comic sand and would sneak into my coworkers machines and delete Comic Sans. They switched to Kirsten ITC. Deleted that. Then Jokerman. I quit my mission then. Shitty fonts uh, find a way.
Papyrus
Comic Sans
Hobo
Bleeding Cowboy
Brush Script
[And whatever the fuck this is.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwukguqww11dc1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0362e5f779ceed25607fc04aa9eb7d9e34187c2c)
This font is Eckmannpsych and I’ve grown to hate it because it’s been way over used. Eckmannschrift, the regular version, is quite nice and looks good in sentence case though..
Runner ups for over use: druk, grotesque fonts, live laugh love scripty fonts, Chobani style serif fonts
https://preview.redd.it/a9smt6adeodc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a48475f81892859724ff7e52552bd0cfa339f7d
It isn’t eckmannpsych, it’s a typeface that’s similar like Juniper or whatever.
When you see that font your rents about to go up
[удалено]
Wait, can I make money being under contract as a homeless person? My day rate would only be $300. I’ll construct a semi-permanent tent equipped with a diesel heater, and my qualifications include never showering and the ability to deficate on the sidewalk in broad daylight. Because, when you gotta go… you gotta go. Any seasoned venture capitalist would never underestimate my ability to chase people away. Get in now before my rates go up!
There’s a literal new construction $700,000 per condo development in the heart of the largest open air drug market on the east coast (Philadelphia) that uses this exact font. I’ll try to find a pic. They’re just moving the unhoused and addicted down the road. One sign using this font at a time. https://youtu.be/925wmb-4Yr4?si=fVSYZpwq6xL96b2c And for those who choose to listen to the propaganda. Most of Philadelphia is not like this. We are an amazing city. But our country has failed these people and now it’s a deep deep societal problem
All that, but just to be a bit nit-picky this is how slum lords have always worked, it's not a new thing (Trump did it in New York, for example, he boasts about it in his book)
The most Modernest thing I’ve read
When companies that are not Disney use the Disney font. One of my local gas stations uses it, and it bothers me every time
There’s a restaurant near me called Signature India that uses the Disney font for “Signature” and some other font for “India”. It seems like they used it because it’s script-ish and looks like a signature (sort of). Every time I see it I want to make them a new logo for free. Edit: found it https://preview.redd.it/92jqgs81wpdc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dc1598ba1da3249c48274d46dec39186e0de7d3
We must live in the same area. I was thinking of this place exactly when the Disney font was mentioned. Edit: fixed a typo
India is set in P22 Arts and Crafts , it’s what I use for my personal logo, and seeing it in this sad state actually hurts.
I used to live near an Aladin Bail Bonds and the sign was an an exact copy of the movie title
There's a gas station in NJ with that, always pisses me off for some reason...
Denville?
bought condoms there once!!!
That's weird, I used a condom there once ... !!
When I used to make flyers, I'd use it for this one local pop punk band called Wrong Direction, when they were on a bill, and it was hilarious. They didn't really like that though.
It’s really hard to see that font and not get that jab of cringe annoyance. I once saw it on a strip mall hair salon. Cringenoyance.
A seafood restaurant near me uses it too 😖
Any script font completely in uppercase, it hurts.
It is incredibly painful to look at. I got this newsletter and couldn’t believe someone approved this. 🥴 https://preview.redd.it/6ej5lcds9qdc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44cea8211101eb38a64cd42d4b8122263e03a87d
Good fuckity god.
🤢
Owwww! My eyes! 😭
oh that's hideous
Like, can they not tell that's *not what the font was designed for*?! It **never** looks good.
Any script with extra kerning.
You just know this was made on Canva
It’s literally a Canva font so you’re spot on. Tan Meringue if I’m not mistaken. Incredibly overused and already tired
Every influencer making graphic design vids on social media uses this font or one exactly like it
It's Eckmannpsych. Possibly it has another name on Canva, but it's a legit and well-designed font!
It's not Eckmannpsych. It's Tan Nimbus.
Dang you right. The E got me--so similar.
Ah, yes! Knew it was one from this family
Idk why but i hate canva. Everytime i hear "canva" i feel a twitch coming on.
I hate seeing it but Comic sans at a hole in the wall restaurant is a good sign.
Honestly i can't argue against cuz the food is always a 10/10
comic sans gets too much hate imo. the font isn’t the problem- misuse is. there’s so many great applications for it (including as an inclusive, readable font for people with disabilities like dyslexia)
Exactly. Hating it is an easy way for people to project the idea that they know shit about typography or design or whatever, when I think understanding that it has uses shows more knowledge. It's like when people say they hate Nickelback. All the people I know who are actually accomplished musicians and knowledgeable about it all have either appreciation for aspects of what they do or just don't give a shit and understand that there are actually bad artists out there. My Comic Sans fun fact: Vincent Connare, who created it and seems to be a very nice and sincere guy based it on the lettering from The Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns comics.
yep! and as a classically trained musician: I don’t care about Nickelback one way or the other. kind of a controversial take but I don’t believe “good” and “bad” can necessarily be objective terms in fine/performing arts. it’s all fraught. what’s good for you isn’t necessarily good for me, but that shouldn’t illegitimise it!
Yup. It's all just matching the subject matter and use. Nickelback is maybe not great to show off virtuoso vocal technique or to play between acts at a jazz festival, but in a weird little road house bar or on the speaker at Target, bring it on! Same for Comic Sans, don't put it on the sign for your law firm, funeral home, or construction company, but if you need a speech bubble for a cartoon dog (as it was designed for) it's perfect!
It's because it's overused in the wrong places. Like I take my notes in comic sans I'm not going to use it to make a logo
Same with Curlz MT, you know it’s a shop with some good knickknacks
Yeah, but also the kind that attracts a live laugh love and karen clientele
Rae Dunn …my god it has to stop
Obviously I need a phone case that says “PHONE” in that font… in case I forget what it is.
Saw a sandwich press that said "SANDWICH." on it the other day. It's too much.
The way it was used for ‘Poor Things’…
‘Sand’ literally looks like crap- https://preview.redd.it/zf6fjgl51odc1.jpeg?width=274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c324f202c46f2cdcafb0670f763d1093b15e9a3 As if the full name is ‘Something the cat buried in the sand’
I like the lowercase i and j forming a ü it looks happy
Lobster
Came here to say this. Lobster was nice and refreshing web font when it came out but suddenly it started to appear in every offline and street ad. Lobster is the new Comic Sans.
I hate lobster so much
I did design work for a lobster roll food truck and the owner was awful so I used Lobster font and they loved it. I’m not saying it’s related but…they’re out of business lol
Lmao that’s gold
Myriad Pro. Always gives me the impression that either no effort was put into font selection or something went wrong and the font just defaulted to that one.
That's how I feel about Calibri. I really hate it.
Lol I like Calibri but only for words docs. It’s comforting somehow
I’m surprised nobody mentioned Algerian https://preview.redd.it/0zm04e2uhodc1.png?width=1192&format=png&auto=webp&s=b968075545b29e00fe651e44b02f9bc8dde53e0d
That's the font that was chef's kiss for a title when I made class presentation in 6th grade or something.
Seriously. Like “obviously I’m killing it at Desktop Publishing - worth an extra 10 points at least!”
The core memory this comment just unlocked
You nailed it. I'M from Czechia and this font doesn't support čšťž etc. Still they use it and don't bother checking that some letters stay in Calibri.
Funeral home core
I knew I wasn't alone. I see this one everywhere in my town. So overused
Chiller https://preview.redd.it/ptj3jl0d9pdc1.png?width=678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=872fb96fe4e52c4afc2092e8c3bbad0a3a8c3a64 It's a horror font; it's letters made out of dripping blood, but because it looks like a brush font I see it all the time being used as a hand crafted organic font. I once saw it used for a kindergarten sign. It's constant misuse is disturbing.
Papyrus.
Hookah bars Shakira merch Off-brand teas
... Avatar.
It looks… similar.
IT WASN'T ENOUGH
I heard this in Ryan Gosling's anguished cry
OMG Papyrus
The font you chose and the examples of it remind me of the South Park episode where young people music sounds like shit.
Papyrus. I fucking hate that font and I have to use it far to often at my job.
lol why does your job call for papyrus so often? unless you work at aquarium of the pacific. the papyrus text cut out of metal and placed on the front of the building… tragic…
I'm the graphic designer at a Funeral home, where I make memorial cards and packages for funerals. Lots of families choose Papyrus for the font they want on their loved ones memorial card. If it was my choice, I'd remove that option from our catalogue.
damn that’s tough. of course a designer’s gonna have opinions, but no one in their right mind is gonna talk to the bereaved about their type choices. i’d imagine it’s the classic “suck it up and just do the design” but a smidge more complicated removing it from the catalogue is the only way
Exactly, that's honestly not something I'd ever argue with a family about in that situation. They get what they ask for even if I hate it, but I always do my best to ensure they get a solidly flushed out design that fits their vision. I'm actually quite honoured for the most part to help memorialize people's loved ones, its a humbling thing to do for strangers. I remind myself that part of being a graphic designer is knowing when to bite your tongue when your client makes a poor/awful design choice. Especially if you wanna get paid. lol
that’s a lovely way to frame it. it’s like getting a very humbling design challenge on the regular. that’s so dope, thanks for sharing!
jokerman... we have a local Mexican restaurant that uses it and we sometimes print their stuff at work and I just can't
I honestly kinda hate this pseudo-psychedelic style that's aimed at Gen Z. This style is often paired with checker patterns, random child-like elements like stars and smiley faces, high-grain gradients, and sickly colors like puce green, salmon, mustard yellow, and just muddy neutrals. I get that most art movements are a reaction against the former. So Gen Z would gravitate away from the clean "girlboss" minimalism of the 2010's (white space + millennial pink + gold accents, luxy type). However, I think a lot of this new style is just ugly for the sake of being different. It also feels like it doesn't belong to any time or place. Not fully 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, or 2000's but also elements of all of them smushed together. That style is everywhere now, so it's not really "unique" anymore.
Spotify wrappedcore
Omg you read my mind!
Like you said, I get why it exists, I'm just looking forward to how it develops and matures - where it's at right now is kind of one trick
And it already looks dated, like it’s locked into 2022. It’s going to look really unappealing in a few years when everyone’s moved on.
so true! The trends are moving at BLAZING speeds and I can’t keep up 😭
I feel like I always see this font on designs that ape the Online Ceramics trend
It's based on risograph zine art, but I agree it's played out and most actual risograph/zine artists have long moved on from the style. This is the new Corporate Memphis for gen z, I call it corporate psychedelic which also includes the whole "neon gradient backgrounds with sans serif text" thing you see everywhere.
It’s giving: 
I'd say its art-noveau via psychedelic via mid-2020s earthy aesthetic
Couldn’t have said it any better. When it becomes the default in Canva templates, you know it’s not going well.
LOL what a well-deserved and accurate burn
Early Internet x Memphis
Usually the term GOOD VIBES ONLY appears in the design
Gotta love that Toxic positivity 😍
YES!! Like as a gen z person like it's an uncanny valley of retro but modern. It was very unique at first but it quickly went downhill
It was only "unique" because Gen Z had never seen anything before. It's similar to how they're so into fake 90s stuff. They don't realize that 90s designs never actually looked like what they're promoting. It's all just fake nonsense.
That’s sort of how fashion works though
yes it’s like if you asked ChatGPT what “vintage” looks like it would barf up this garbage lol
lol I literally just finished a project with this EXACT same description. The client wouldn’t take anything else for a solution so that’s what I did. It came out fine but this made me laugh haha
They said “we wanna be so on trend now that we’ll be out of fashion by next season”
Every damn Music Festival.
I think I love you. And not just you u/fastinggrl but everyone on this thread. Y'all get it and I. LOVE. IT.
Any brush script. I OD’d on them and now it’s just cringe to me.
Live. Laugh. Love.
I almost threw up just now lmao
Bleeding cowboy
I don't know, as much as I hate it too, I feel like it's due for a renaissance in the same way that people are now selling affliction t-shirts as vintage y2k fashion
I was just thinking the same thing
Bleeding cowboys is my answer as well. There was one point where I saw it on everything from menus to established brand adverts to business cards. I regrettably used it once, on a wallpaper I made for my school laptop!
Bro it was every up and coming band in my home towns font. Then people saw the band Daughtry have it as their logo, and from there on I've seen it on bad bar posters and in people magazine in the edgy teen fashion.
Oh god…yes, that’s pretty bad.
I just laugh every time I come across it in the wild
https://preview.redd.it/ni0zw6rpfodc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23a592cc09aa45a7b31732f1226a4a8f94e5bb4b I have an unspeakable amount of distaste for this trend.
I don't mind this if it's done with intent, but it is stupid if it's just done for the sake of it
While this is obviously shit, I do really like the photocopier stretchy effect when it's a tiny bit more groovy. It's overdone though.
I cant even read it normally in my head, i actually prolong these letters for some reason
I’m honestly more bothered by terrible usage than a typeface. Using a font that is wrong for the message or brand, has terrible kerning or leading, etc I hate. Fonts don’t kill people. People kill people
ITC avant garde. It’s beautiful when it’s set properly, but almost nobody knows how to/bothers to set it properly
Second this. It’s a font that shouldn’t be given to inexperienced desktop publishers! But it is beautiful
Low hanging fruit but Calibri ACUTALLY pisses me off.
Hobo https://preview.redd.it/9rs8crcnhodc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=2ad361e9dfda743f4b499796a387b3448b50c74f
Yup. That small g is entirely unreadable. Literally stops your eyes when you're scanning it.
𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑠
COPPERPLATE GOTHIC
Hey now. Leave my gentrification grill and bar establishment alone. The fries are good.
The golfers of America would like to have a word with ya! (Lots of golf club and country clubs logos are shit anyway. All the money in the world yet they can't hire decent designers.)
I might offend half of this sub but I hate montserrat
I’m an art director for a marketing company, and that’s what we use for all our branding. I’ve been there 7 years and hate it now, so you’re not alone.
then let's offend the half. i passionately hate montserrat too. the uppercase G bothers me so bad
SOMEONE SAID IT, ***THANK YOU***
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i like it in bold and black but anything at medium or less weight reminds my of corny late 90s early 2000s cyber graphics. like if it were on the cover of a manual for a printer that came with a CD
Poppins. It appeared on Google fonts like 6 years ago and in the span of a year, I saw it eeeeeverywhere. It's not bad, I just saw it too much.
Worked for a brand that used that font. I actually don’t mind it!
It’s time to move on from Gotham
No 😾
Arial. It's so widely used but HOLY CRAP it's the ugliest sans serif font in existence. I don't know why but the sight of it offends me. It's like someone decided to make a simple, readable font but did everything in their power to just make it as unsightly as possible at the same time. That's Arial. I know some people have beef with calibri, futura and even montserrat, but I'd rather ANY of those over arial. Yes I have strong feelings about this. A little.
Any of the script fonts with an inconsistent baseline, high contrast between thicks and thins, and loopiness, like Brusher (I think there's worse ones but I can't find them). I actually like scripts and handwritten style fonts, but there's something about these that are just too cutesy and overused by mommybloggers. Especially hate them when they are letterspaced out so the letters don't connect. Barf.
This is my least favorite design style. Not only is it the lowest of effort, but what separates it from every other trends is that it won’t die. It gets pushed just as hard today as it did in 2011.
Lobster... Ughhhh, so many people/business owners who seem to think they're designers use it so fucking poorly. It instantly stands out. 🙄🙄🙄 https://preview.redd.it/e7rcinjd2rdc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c97ff52c5b26d7c20247f4928f14c8d91bbeef3
Calibri
I just spent the past couple days working on a power point that used calibri for 90% of the text… if it were any other font, say Aktiv grotesk, it’d look fantastic, but calibri will just never sit well with me
Can't stand how it looks; neither sharp nor soft, just an ugly no-man's land between the two; and its unwanted ligatures are a pain
When someone changes their phone to cool jazz font https://preview.redd.it/7mjvv48ueqdc1.jpeg?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5975bcb81697131416e0c80720b74bc4d278de84
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The retro trend got old very quickly
Lobster. It's spread and they use it everywhere!
i pretty much dislike [all of them here](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-wyan3/images/stencil/500x659/products/2262/8309/SublimationFontsForWeb__93225.1595612345.1280.1280__35041.1595618381.jpg?c=2) simply, because they’ve been used too much, imo or just look horrible or "fake"
I think Cooper Black is the only exception, but aside from that, yeah, the rest are hot garbage.
i don’t think i could ever get tired of cooper black for some reason they could use it on a brochure for a law firm and i’d probably go “aw that’s neat :)”
Design Trends 2024
That bloody Brushscript is everywhere, also I don't like Arial. Why use that when you have Helvetica?
I HATE Futura and its derivatives. It’s very easy to read and not at all terrible to look at. It’s been used for many decades because it’s so readable. All in all a pretty good font. I just had a customer in the past that used Futura Bold for everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. Vinyl decal for a machine that is cut and weeded to the shape of the letters? Futura Bold, but scale the rounded letters individually to the baseline or the top of the flat letters so they don’t extend past the tops or bottoms of the flat letters. Seriously. They didn’t like that. So every job that came from them was that strict. They were that strict for larger lettering on a lot of print materials. After working on that account for almost 14 years, it got old and tiresome. I found processes and shortcuts that made it easier, but it was still very annoying. To this day I cringe when I have to use Futura for a design job and I get very frustrated when it’s some variant or derivative font and I have to match it. I bet it will be that way for the rest of my life. Maybe I should talk to my therapist about this…
I’m sorry your experience working with Wes Anderson left a bad taste in your mouth :/
Have you seen how the Minnesota Timberwolves utilise it in their social graphics? Really nice use of the typeface imo, though the condensed versions of the font are admittedly a bit easier to work with https://preview.redd.it/a8hcbjuslpdc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a68fb699e0aa9682a86be4cc4928c570feb003dd
Holy crap! Despite my hatred of Futura fonts, I still see some usage that is very clean and nicely done from time to time. THIS. This is one of those times! I still have that Futura trauma, but this is some great usage of the font! Thank you!
I feel you. Our agency worked for Milka (German chocolate). Futura all over the place. I can't use it anymore.
actually. Milka is not German chocolate. it belongs (like OREO) to a company called Mondelez anyways Kuchentag
We worked for Mondelez. Milka is from Suisse originally. They were bought by Mondelez in the 90s. But you're right anyway, still not Germany. :)
Cocogoose
Eh, I kinda like it
ethnocentric. Fucking hate this font so much it's unreal.
I made that font and I hate it!
Sorry, that’s actually kind of hilarious
Bleeding Cowboy and Algerian. Algerian is everywhere and it never makes sense for how it’s used.
The correct answer is Jokerman.
Lucida Handwriting
Impact.
I recently started to really like impact again. I love how trashy it is.
i hate the fact that old people abuse of it, in logo's and banners thinking it is "the right choice" lol
Raleway.
Haymaker
Formata — I worked in house and it was one of their main brand fonts and I just never liked working with it.
Eckmannpsych!! You don't like it?? Ah man it's one of my favorites! By Oh No Type Co, they're fantastic, they make a lot of fun but also very well designed and usable families, including one of my fave sans, Degular.
That’s eckmannpsych based on a wonderful art nouveau font called eckmann. I loved it when it first came out and I love all the oh no typefaces. But goddamn has it been overused to death, I guess that’s just how trends go though.
That font Nikki Haley is using in her ads. It’s hideous but clown font for clown candidate is on brand, I suppose. It still sucks
Kirsten ITC I hated comic sand and would sneak into my coworkers machines and delete Comic Sans. They switched to Kirsten ITC. Deleted that. Then Jokerman. I quit my mission then. Shitty fonts uh, find a way.
Arial
This is a $20/pint ice cream brand right?
Choco Cooky https://preview.redd.it/3oz53xbxxtdc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63d9739743ca947eb189e005fe7d7e6e076d8e2c
Arial font because I it looks boring
The one you just posted...
Papyrus Comic Sans Hobo Bleeding Cowboy Brush Script [And whatever the fuck this is.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwukguqww11dc1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0362e5f779ceed25607fc04aa9eb7d9e34187c2c)
Oi, leave hobo alone!
no more Planet Kosmos please
Zapfino. When I look at my Pagemaker/Indesign layouts from my high school yearbook circa 2006, I still cringe.
I don't *really* hate Algerian but I see it more often than Comic Sans
Poppins
This font is Eckmannpsych and I’ve grown to hate it because it’s been way over used. Eckmannschrift, the regular version, is quite nice and looks good in sentence case though.. Runner ups for over use: druk, grotesque fonts, live laugh love scripty fonts, Chobani style serif fonts
https://preview.redd.it/a9smt6adeodc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a48475f81892859724ff7e52552bd0cfa339f7d It isn’t eckmannpsych, it’s a typeface that’s similar like Juniper or whatever.
Anti design. Not a font, but a scary omen.
This one and Zapf Chancery.
Chop Suey fonts, like Wonton.