GQ – when fonts go bad

June 10, 2012 9:04

Good to see News Limited promoting the new edition of GQ in The Sunday Telegraph today.

Mind you, the cover lines could do with a little more thought.

topics GQ News Limited publishing Sunday Telegraph

Comments: 5

Bill Posters 10 Jun 12

Sure it isn’t Neville Brody reprising his 80s work for The Face?

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Dwayne 11 Jun 12

The three people who actually read it must be furious!!!!

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Production Grunt 12 Jun 12

This is what happens when creatives download and use free TrueType fonts, thinking that it won’t matter.

Usually, they’re right.
Occasionally, they’re not right, and it goes spectacularly wrong.

I keep a particular copy of the Weekend Australian at work, where the FPC on the back page has suffered the same fate. Ouch.

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Font Freak 12 Jun 12

I like it!

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Kate 12 Jun 12

There was a movie released here in Hong Kong (and China) recently, sort of a romcom, called Love in the Buff. Problem was, whoever chose the English language poster font was clearly more into decorative than legible – it looked like the movie title was ‘Love in the Butt’.

On the other hand, the whole thing got heaps of free publicity as the English-speaking population took to Facebook and forums to laugh.

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