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Bad Typo(graphy)

Most of us don't actually take typography seriously when designing posters, banners, flyers or even signboards so long as we think it looks cool or nice. As a result, you can find bad typo almost everywhere. Examples of Bad Typo As you can see in the picture above, the sign is about prioritizing our safety first. At first glance, you might not have noticed anything wrong with; except when you try to look at it from far away. Looking closely, only the words 'UTAMAKAN' was made the biggest from the rest while the word 'KESELAMATAN' was put below 'UTAMAKAN' and made smaller than half of the size of the word above it. The sign is about 'safety first', so they should have made both 'UTAMAKAN' and 'KESELAMATAN' the same size. In this picture, I would like to focus on how they emphasize the words. They used fancy fonts for the words 'Du'a' and 'OF SUCCESS' to highlight these two from the quote. However,