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My whole poster design fell apart because of a font choice last Thursday

I was making a poster for a bake sale at my kid's school in Springfield and used a really fancy script font for the header. I paired it with a simple sans-serif, but when we printed a test at Kinko's, the script was totally unreadable from more than 3 feet away. I had to scramble and redo the whole thing the night before. Has anyone else had a script font completely fail in a print project? What's a good script that actually stays legible?

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wyatt10715d ago

Totally unreadable from more than 3 feet away" is the classic script font story. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt you can't read either. Those fancy ones look great on your screen and then just turn into fancy worm shapes on paper. I've had decent luck with thicker, chunkier scripts like Brush Script or just giving up and using a bold italic.

angela_wilson7815d ago

Brush Script is still a thing people use?

lucas9723d ago

But is legibility from across a room the main goal for every project? Sometimes the vibe or style matters more than perfect clarity, like for a logo or an invite where you only need to read it once up close.