What should be so important as a person's safety is seemingly ignored by the font used in this warning. As a sticker on the inside of a subway door, it should use text that is alarming at the least. A loud, largely bold and uppercase type might do the trick, but instead, the lowercase letters and extremely large x-height detract from the reality of what the message is trying to convey. If you lean on the door and the door happens to open, you won't fall onto a fluffy mattress of feathers and pillows of which the font gives the impression. Instead, something severely harmful might be the result.
The font used in here is really confused. First the words do not place in the same baseline and each letters has different styles that some of them are bold and some don't. Also the spacing between the words are all messed up that this warning sign does not really convey the idea they want to express.
ReplyDeleteColor and size are two of the most powerful visual elements. This sign would be a lot more alarming if it was large and red. Good observation.
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