Haveyounoticed?
Spacesbetweenwordsareapparentlysopassé.
It’sohsotrendytojustuseamixtureofboldandromanfontsinstead.
Everysinglegoddamnmovieposterandmagazinecoverisatit.
Numb3rs
Se7en
Unan1mous
CamelCaps, although they’re a bit early-2000s.
You mean like TelePrompTer?
teh
DIE, teh, DIE!!!
Text on a dark background with multiple overlapping faint/transparent versions of the same text behind, in assorted sizes, shades and fonts.
Is that the best you can do?
It’s German… for ‘the teh, the!’.
Which is the only kind of post I’d expect from someone with your user-name.
Text that’s placed randomly around a setting but meant to be read in a string altogether. I actually like it but it needs to have a visual flow that works.
I know I’m fifteen or so years late for this, but that thing where some words were tipped up o their ends (U2 used to do it quite a bit) and otheres weren’t… eugh… that couldn’t have died quickly enough.
My current pet hate is companies neddlessly adding .com to their name on the sides of trucks and the like. Unless you are a purely internet-based business (and even then), KNOCK IT OF ALREADY. It looks really 1996. It’s 2008 ferchrissakes and you are a company - we know you’re going to be on the internet, and we know how to find it.
Plagiarist! (Simpsons)
When iMacs and iPods became popular, there rose a horde of companies anxious to profit by making accessories for the two, and it seems almost ALL of them threw an “i” in front of their name. It was annoying and stupid, and I deliberately bought my accessories and peripherals from companies whose name didn’t irk me, like Kensington and Logitech.
Also, Comic Sans.
Alright.
Not exactly just a cliche of our time.
The OED gives examples going back to the late 19th century, and in 1926 Fowler’s Modern English Usage noted that it was “often seen.”
But – a cliche that persists and subsists in our time and hence a worthy object of my contempt?
I stand by that, but you just taught me something, so thanks.
Too much Papyrus, in boardgames.
Papyrus, The Font That Jesus Used, in the movies.
There’s been a hotel around here called “e.com Lodge” for a while now… curiously close to “Webpage Farms”, whose website I’ve never been able to locate.
I’ve noticed this one. The first instance I saw was on the Crocodile Hunter movie.
I just talked about it in another thread, but then I remember this thread and had to come back here to comment on it.
The usage of “pwn” and, quite frankly, the terminology that it originated from, “to own” somebody. :smack: It was bad enough in typographic form, but the fact that people verbalize it now really grinds my gears. </Family Guy>
And in relation to this: ALL companies that insist that their company or product name (a proper noun, let me remind you) begins with a lower-case letter. wHY, wHY, wHY?!
If they prefer it that way in the logo, fine – I won’t complain. But in body copy? Aargh.