Sara
I am dying of second-hand embarrassment.
Do you ever look at a logo or a line and have to double-check it to make sure you are reading it right or if it is just your dirty mind? Yeah? Well, that tends to happen a lot. Especially to people with bad handwriting, trying to make out what they have written can be difficult but sometimes the words appear to look like something they are not. This is where dirty-minded people take up the opportunity and turn it into humour. It isn’t just manual handwriting though. Any great designer would put a lot of effort into kerning. Kerning is defined as the spacing between letters or characters. This is to make sure the text is clear and readable, and can not be manipulated as something else. So it has a lot of importance when it comes to graphic designing and a lot of other things. It is not just a piece of cake. Believe it or not, even minor details like kerning matter a lot when it comes to presentation. So we can say not everyone can be a great graphic designer without focusing on these little details.
But you will see a lot of manual letter-spacing fails on other things as well. Such as cakes or cards. Why am I putting so much focus on letter-spacing? Are you getting bored? Well, you will see what I mean by the importance of letter-spacing when you see the images listed below. I would hate to be the owner of any of these things presented to me that just looks plain embarrassing. This is what we call an epic fail. Scroll down below to see 20 1mbarrassing examples of why letter-spacing is important:
1. Oh God! Someone should tell them.
2. Letter spacing is important.
3. Noooooo!
4. Who writes these?
5. There doesn’t need to be space.
6. I think I’ll miss out on breakfast.
7. The worst kind of developer.
Okay, these just triggered my dirty mind. Did you read them as the same as I did or are you normal? Imagine putting these up in public. Oh God, I would not want to be the one explaining what is actually written. We are only halfway through though. There are still more cringe images left for you to see. So keep scrolling.
8. This is going to end badly.
9. They need some space.
10. Please focus on your spaces next time.
11. Sure it does.
12. Who doesn’t want to watch gorillas?
13. Can you spot it?
14. Sony needs some space.
15. Why even?
16. You never design like that.
17. Another bad example.
18. This is the worst one.
19. I know what their most ordered dish is.
Did these make you laugh? Or is your sense of humour dead? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.