# Clint Black's font/kerning disaster **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903 "2012-11-13T17:42:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/1 "2012-11-13T17:42:48Z")
So, Country music guy Clint Black is performing locally. One of the venue’s signs caught my eye. They chose the wrong font (Capital “I” is just a straight vertical line) and the kerning is bad (The “L” and “I” are too close). I pointed the sign out to my gf and she cracked up. It appears to be advertising CUNT BLACK.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/2 "2012-11-13T18:06:48Z")
Maybe it’s not the kind of show you think it is. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/3 "2012-11-13T18:16:50Z")
Did you take a picture and send it to FailBlog? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/4 "2012-11-13T18:22:51Z")
I just bought STOVE BLACK to refurbish a stove and keep it from rusting. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/5 "2012-11-13T18:27:30Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > So, Country music guy Clint Black is performing locally. One of the venue’s signs caught my eye. They chose the wrong font (Capital “I” is just a straight vertical line) and the kerning is bad (The “L” and “I” are too close). > > I pointed the sign out to my gf and she cracked up. It appears to be advertising CUNT BLACK.:eek: Time to dig out [this photograph](http://i50.tinypic.com/34g38zp.jpg) I took in Australia 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/6 "2012-11-13T18:33:45Z")
When I was a kid someone had moved the L and the I close together on a movie marquee. Thus the sign had the movie name, and then “STARRING CUNT AND BURT”. As a ~12 year old, I found that pretty funny. Good thing I matured. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/7 "2012-11-13T18:37:55Z")
I remember reading a bit about how comic book writers were told _never_ to name a character Clint, because the lettering was always uppercase, the printing was cheaply done, and it was all too easy for the L and the I to become connected into a U. The same was also true for the nickname “FLICK”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/8 "2012-11-13T19:09:35Z")
I had an Archie comic where they were talking about watching a “science flick”. I thought it was always good for a chuckle when I was younger and immaturer. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/9 "2012-11-13T19:14:49Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > The same was also true for the nickname “FLICK”. We used to alter the lettering on the tubes of Flicks candy all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/10 "2012-11-13T19:59:45Z")
What’s this talk about being younger and immature and finding it funny then? It’s still funny now! 😃 And farts. Farts are always funny. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/11 "2012-11-13T23:50:47Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > What’s this talk about being younger and immature and finding it funny then? It’s still funny now! 😃 You may enjoy [this classic](http://www.stomptokyo.com/extras/nads/). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/12 "2012-11-14T00:45:20Z")
Once you go Black… ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/13 "2012-11-14T00:45:57Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > I remember reading a bit about how comic book writers were told _never_ to name a character Clint, because the lettering was always uppercase, the printing was cheaply done, and it was all too easy for the L and the I to become connected into a U. > > The same was also true for the nickname “FLICK”. When I was a kid there was a series of advertising billboards put up along the highways here for a pest-extermination company called “Flick”. The ads were a big picture of an insect or spider and the company name in large red capital letters. Nothing funnier than seeing a sign in the distance that comprises of a giant funnel-web spider and the word “FUCK” next to it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/14 "2012-11-14T02:17:29Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > You may enjoy [this classic](http://www.stomptokyo.com/extras/nads/). “Australians go crazy for Nads!” Hee hee hee. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/15 "2012-11-14T02:34:13Z")
Is there a greasemonkey font script thingy we can use to do a work around in the BBQ Pit and run around calling everyone Clint? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/16 "2012-11-14T02:35:15Z")
Nothing brightens a winter night [like a good fuckering.](http://ilovefunnypics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10-flickering-lights-500x230.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/17 "2012-11-14T02:37:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Nothing brightens a winter night [like a good fuckering.](http://ilovefunnypics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10-flickering-lights-500x230.jpg) OH my! ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/18 "2012-11-14T02:48:03Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > “Australians go crazy for Nads!” Hee hee hee. 😃 😃 The name got lots of laughs around here. One of the TV sports shows decided to get themselves a horse and rename it “Nads” for a race, just to get a bunch of over excited people screaming “Go Nads!” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/19 "2012-11-14T03:13:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Nothing brightens a winter night [like a good fuckering.](http://ilovefunnypics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10-flickering-lights-500x230.jpg) Love. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/20 "2012-11-14T03:32:29Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Nothing brightens a winter night [like a good fuckering.](http://ilovefunnypics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10-flickering-lights-500x230.jpg) My dad bought some of those. At least I think that’s what he was calling them while decorating the house. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903.md?page=2)