Bad typography examples

Kalypso | Graphic Designer on Instagram: “Typography Mistakes.⁣ ⁣ Good and Bad examples of typography⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Type might look simple, but it’s still possible to get it very wrong. Here…”

Let's talk about graphic design. This first poster is an example of bad poster design. This is a pretty bad one. It kind of looks like they made this design in Word. The fonts they used all have really high x-heights(the lower case letters are almost as tall as the capital letters) which is usually the kind of font you'd use if you were going to have a lot of really small text, unless it was on purpose. Nothing in this poster design looks like it's on purpose though. The designer also…

Erik Brandt is a graphic designer and educator who has been active since 1994. He is currently Chair of the Design Department and Professor of Graphic Design at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and curated Ficciones Typografika , a project dedicated to typographic exploration in a public space. Educated internationally, his career began as a cartoonist in Japan in 1994, and has since found…

As an important element of graphic design typography is defined as the style or appearance of text. Learn more in this tutorial and video.

La leggibilità del volantino è molto bassa per la scelta dei font e l'accostamento dei colori. Il kerning è completamente sbagliato, perfino imbarazzante. I font scelti sono molto anonimi.

Finding the perfect font pair, adjusting font spacing, creating contrast, and improving readability is a process that takes time and experience. Unfortunately, many choose to skip this process by randomly using fonts that just “look good”, which leads to disastrous typography designs. Today, we take a look at some of those bad typography examples to […]

So, my second semester of school I needed an example of bad typography for my Intro to Graphic Design class. I did what all good students do and waited till the last minute to find a my example using google images. While I was browsing through the hundreds of amazing images that you get by searching for "bad typography examples" I can across this poster titled "How Bad Does it Have to Get" by Enkeling. The poster reads "How Bad does it Have to Get in Order for You to Start doing Something…

HA! this is literally the worst. I took a cellphone picture of this sign that I can’t upload, so this is from flickr. This is a real sign on a hearing aid store near my house, at Hastings and…

These gaffes and cliches will make your designer friends flip every table in sight.