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.
We know how much you enjoy these funny fails concerning design, so you can read Bored Panda’s previous posts about them here, here, here, here, and here.
#1 How Do I Apply?
Image source: sevenonesicks
#2 Noted
Image source: jhoang0730
#3 Apparently Scary Jesus Is A Thing
Image source: Bausdria
#4 Five Extremely Slow Children Playing
Image source: chunkledom
#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
Image source: KevenNotKevin
#6 Well, Uh… I Guess That’s A Good Motto
Image source: doubletheaction
#7 Attention
Image source: rosco555555
#8 Thanks For The Advice
Image source: zapsquad
#9 Baby Needs Beers & Wines
#10 Experience
Image source: lilyber
#11 This Habitat For Humanity Van
Image source: EasterChimp
#12 So My Campus Had A Suicide Awareness And Prevention Day
Image source: KBid-1998
#13 No Safety. Smoking First
#14 Who Else Is Donating To End Children?
Image source: Gummie
#15 Don’t Save A Life. Be Afraid To Give Blood
Image source: youllneverfindmeman
#16 Do I Push?
Image source: Jean_Putt
#17 If You Hard, Then You Hard
Image source: Vengedpotty
#18 Sorry Guys, You Can’t Let Your Pets Cook Bicycles Here
Image source: PikachuIce
#19 Hood On vs. Hood Off
Image source: m_delacour
#20 Please Do Not Take It Home. Leave Litter Here
Image source: freshcheezels
#21 Just Purchased This Low Quality Fried Chicken At The Grocery Store
Image source: mountainsofkong
#22 If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?
Image source: MrGrampton
#23 Smash Immigrants Welcome Racism
Image source: Dbanzai
#24 Honey, I Think We’re Supposed To Turn Right
Image source: Lolawolf
#25 I Only Saw The Left Window At First And Got Very Confused
Image source: generationfire
#26 This New Wall Art In My Office
Image source: Bitemarkz
#27 Our To Help Trollies You Move
Image source: INTP36
#28 7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans
Image source: maximum_chungus
#29 So I Fart Old Dust
Image source: variousbirds
#30 They Are, In Fact, A Particular Sub-Species Of Rock
Image source: 192747585939
#31 The Design School I Graduated From Sent This Postcard Out
Image source: edrini
#32 Stand Hong With Kong
Image source: pedrojalapa
#33 When Your Gym Tryies Hard To Motivate You But Fails To Make Any Sense
Image source: james_pawned
#34 Truly Inspiring
Image source: littlefisch2020
#35 Vicious Inc… What?!
Image source: thedirtyjackal
#36 This Monstrosity
Image source: Hantook
#37 From Afar, This Sign Has A Completely Different Meaning
Image source: tannerclary3
#38 Wet Private Clay Parties
Image source: bouncingredgrape
#39 Burn Increase
Image source: SabertoothCSGO
#40 Never Ever Ever Beef. Frozen Always
Image source: ManWitoutSocks
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