Attention graphic designers: perhaps you should think about making passive-aggressive notes a standard part of your corporate identity package? At the office of our anonymous submitter in Utrecht, the employees had to make matters into their own hands.
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Or at Design Police, you can download your own visual enforcement kit for free.
related: Just severe enough
extra credit: georgia on my mind [inspiration bit]
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#1
anglophile
Georgia is clearly the font of choice of all discriminating sign (and blog) designers.
Mar 1, 2009 at 10:20 pm rating: 10
#2
Kristen
Love this. LOVE THIS!! I’m a graphic designer and I can’t tell you the sigh of relief that came from me when I saw the second note. The first one made me feel all stabby.
Mar 1, 2009 at 10:22 pm rating: 5
#3
amoi
I cracked up reading “legible from space” and “microscope required.”
Mar 1, 2009 at 10:34 pm rating: 4
#4
Canthz_B
Font snobs of the world untie!
Mar 1, 2009 at 10:39 pm rating: 4
#5
thrall38
Clearly if there are no joke (is no jokes?), there is no sense of humors to go with the foods…
Mar 2, 2009 at 12:19 am rating: 1
#6
Canthz_B
Do I still have to pay taxes if my name is thrown away?
Mar 2, 2009 at 12:33 am rating: 3
#7
Flaboy2425
Why should I change the name of my potato chips? I don’t think they would want to be called Karl Schloshburger.
Mar 2, 2009 at 12:58 am rating: 4
#8
Canthz_B
Georgia blacks are no different than anyone else. Okay, so they’re a bit ragged, right? But Romans were Italian, not Italic.
Mar 2, 2009 at 1:14 am rating: 25
#9
100indecisions
Wow.
I’m kind of in love with that Design Police thing, though. If I ever run an office, I’m gonna use it constantly.
Mar 2, 2009 at 3:48 am rating: 3
#10
QuarterRoy00
3 fonts walk into a bar.
The bartender says, “Hey, we don’t serve your type here…”
Mar 2, 2009 at 6:31 am rating: 42
#11
Jantien
Aaaargh, font choices…
See also:
http://drawn.ca/2008/10/20/typocalypse-what-your-fonts-say-about-you/
Mar 2, 2009 at 7:17 am rating: 0
#12
Woman on the Verge
Hello, my name is D and I am a font abuser.
I admit to making my passive agressive signs in many and varied fonts, even going as far as using Word Art *collective gasp* to make them eye catching and pleasing to look at.
Okay, not really, but can you imagine the 12 steps? Sure you can… Fire away!
Mar 2, 2009 at 7:33 am rating: 6
#13
Holiday Djinn
Helvetica or FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 2, 2009 at 7:41 am rating: 6
#14
amy d
If my name was All, I wouldn’t label my food or drinks, either. It could get confusing.
Mar 2, 2009 at 7:59 am rating: 15
#15
Lorelie
Papyrus? What’s wrong with papyrus?
*peers at my side bar. gulps.*
But I totally get a pass on whatever it is, ’cause I’m not actually a designer, right? Plus, I have boobs. That should help.
Mar 2, 2009 at 9:26 am rating: 10
#16
you suck at craigslist
I love Georgia. It’s my default font. Folks in my department know when I’ve written something because I’m the only one that’s changed my default font from Times to Georgia. (That, and because it’s good.)
Mar 2, 2009 at 9:48 am rating: 3
#17
chelsea
my sick obsession with fonts has come to light. this is the BEST passive-aggressive note post ever.
Mar 2, 2009 at 10:06 am rating: 3
#18
MAMARILLA2
Will Vince or Billy Mays be hawking the Sticker set on the tube any time soon?
Mar 2, 2009 at 10:23 am rating: 3
#19
schmutzi
so much fuss about fonts that nobody noticed that UTRECHT was spelled wrong in the original post?
Mar 2, 2009 at 10:51 am rating: 1
#20
mamason
If loving comic sans is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Mar 2, 2009 at 11:07 am rating: 8
#21
claw71
I’ll use whatever the fuck font I want. Except here. The font tags aren’t working. did ERAC lock those out? Dirty bastard.
Mar 2, 2009 at 12:49 pm rating: 2
#22
claw71
The Ballad of Comic Sans
I’m just a font, yeah I’m only a font.
You can use me for whatever you want.
I was created in the 90s, to give you a lift
but my widespread abuse created this rift
and now I’m something people want to ban
I hope that the dismay goes away but today I am still a font you don’t want.
It’s not my fault I was once your signature script
on those iWon.com message boards before one day you were ripped
for coming off like a child with a crayola in a kung fu grip
it’s a trip.
Do you hate your leg warmers too?
How about the Vanilla Ice CD you keep pretending to forget to throw away?
Did the Zubazz pants you wore to the gym in 1992 make you gay?
What did you say?
What about that Betamax tape deck in your rec room?
You really thought you were ahead of the boom.
Then VHS went nuts and you couldn’t even sell that Beta version of the Richard Chamberlain raiding King Tut’s tomb.
Do you hate him too?
Am I to blame for you leaving me selected as your default?
Did I ruin your chances to get that job or was I just the salt
on the shit sandwich you called a resume?
Eh?
Maybe the humorous script made your stint guessing weight at Kings Island
seem more in tune with your career path.
So why do I face your wrath?
You did the Macarena. Don’t even try to lie
You loved Rachel Ray and you chose to date that biker guy.
Did the college cafeteria endure a scene
because you packed on that Freshman 15?
Does Joe Camel owe you a his sorrow
because you keep promising to quit tomorrow?
Why then, must I endure your scorn?
I’m not drugs and I’m not porn.
I’m just one of many ways for you to express;
it’s not my fault if you fail to impress.
Ban me if you must, I’ll just go away
but the shame you feel will always stay.
It’s not Comic Sans costing you your respect,
but rather that empty bulb on top of your neck.
Yeah, I’m a font. I’m only a font.
I communicate whatever you want.
Blame me for your problems, I’ll carry that weight
but nobody out there is taking the bait,
because they all know you’re a buffoon
I said that ‘cause it’s true; what are you gonna do?
I’m a font.
Mar 2, 2009 at 2:40 pm rating: 8
#23
TPS
I knew of someone who wrote all her college essays in Pooh font. Not suprisingly, she became a preschool teacher.
Mar 2, 2009 at 3:33 pm rating: 1
#24
Josh
THIS is no joke: the software company I work for actually uses Comic Sans IN THE SOFTWARE INTERFACE. This isn’t software for children–it’s FOR ENGINEERS. WTF WTF WTF WTF!!!!!! Thank you.
Mar 2, 2009 at 4:20 pm rating: 3
#25
claw71
Not that it’s the best font for printing, but I’m rather partial to helvetica. It just melts so evenly in the microwave and my queso dip would be a greasy mess without it.
Of course if I’m trying to impress guests such as the Algerian and my old buddy Poor Richard I like to put out a tray with some Haettenschweiler and a few slices of Calibri. And of course, no party is complete without a case or two of Goudy Old Style. Nothing wrong with Goudy Stout, but that’s pretty heavy for social drinking.
Mar 2, 2009 at 4:38 pm rating: 11
#26
Sensei
Children with reading difficulties find sans serif fonts easier.
Anyone writing to you in comic sans assumes you are stupid, thus making it the most perfect of all the passive aggressive fonts.
Mar 2, 2009 at 4:55 pm rating: 6
#27
Geek Goddess
The lack of margins on note 2 hurts. I refuse to use Georgia for my PANs until the note is reposted with margins. It does seem appropriate to print PANs in a font that was designed for on-screen use, though. I give them points for that.
Mar 2, 2009 at 6:22 pm rating: 3
#28
Woman on the Verge
I am here to tell you all that the absolute best font ever is……
Dimestore Hooker.
Mar 2, 2009 at 7:30 pm rating: 2
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