Fifteen whole years later, Benton got around to publishing Hobo.Īlternates: Any creative font that was designed after 2010. Before it was published, it became known as “that old hobo” to the designer Morris Benton. Hobo got its name because it was nameless for so many years. This isn’t necessarily an overused font but I literally cringe anytime I see it used in design. The Dukes of Hazzard called and they want their font back. You really can’t take a company very seriously when they use a font like this.Īlternates: Indie, Alpine Script, Amorinda Now it is quickly becoming more overused than Helvetica! That’s hard to do! The cool factor of this font is long gone and now when I see it being used in a logo or other branding, I wonder what the designer was thinking when they chose that font. It seemed like such a fresh take on a script font. I remember the first time I saw this font back in 2004.
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I had to search for them and install them for this post. The next 4 fonts I obviously hated so much, I didn’t even have them installed on my mac. There are so many better san serif choices out there, just scroll past this one… please!!!Īlternates: Perpetua, Goudy Old Style, Hoefler Microsoft used Times New Roman as the default for Word, the most popular word processing software, until 2007. I read an article recently that said “Using Times New Roman is the typeface equivalent of wearing sweatpants to an interview”. Thank God they’ve replaced Arial with Calibri as the default font in Office 2007. I won’t even offer a suggestion for an alternate font to use because they are to implement with any other design elements.Īrial was once the standard font in all Microsoft applications, thus making it the go-to font for amateur and non-creative designers. I love a good handwritten font just like the next guy, however, Bradley Hand looks nothing like handwriting. If I see another law firm/accounting agency/corporate business use this font in their branding, it’ll be too soon! If you want to look like everyone else, go for it!Īlternates: Bolt Engravers, Medio, Revista Blackīesides Comic Sans (we’ll get to that one later, trust me), this is hands down the most overused font for invitations, school announcements, storybooks, or your kids’ bar mitzvah. Even though Trajan is a beautiful font, it is shipped with every copy of Adobe Creative Suite and thus has been overused in design for years.Īlternates: Revista, Perpetua, Aviano Flare From Titanic to Minority Report to Apollo 13 to A Beautiful Mind.
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This is font that has been brutalized in movie posters and movie marketing materials. This is just one of the ugliest fonts every created! Period! If you are writing code, a screenplay or something that needs to have major readablility, stay the f*ck away from this font! Because of this, these fonts have lost its distinction and are perceived as gaudy, cheap and ugly. In the case of logo design, some of these are called the “worst” because the fonts are mostly overused across multiple mediums for the wrong reasons. When designing a logo, the most important piece you will start with is the font. With so many amazing font designers out there today, there are plenty of choices to choose from. Some fonts that were cool in the 80s, should be left there, tied up, drawn and quartered… and then shot a couple more times.
Fonts also follow fads just like everything else does. It’s what we do! But not all typography makes us feel all gooey inside. All graphic designers have a love for typography.
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