Had a guy at a craft fair tell me my bumper sticker font was ‘unreadable’

I was at the Riverbend Craft Fair in Chattanooga last Saturday, selling my usual funny sayings on vinyl, and this older dude stopped at my booth just to pick apart the font on a sticker that said 'Honk if you love sarcasm.' He said it looked like 'a 5th grader's messy handwriting' and walked off before I could even explain I chose a casual script to match the joke. Has anyone else had a random stranger criticize your design choices like they're a professional critic?

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wren6524d ago

Yeah honestly I used to roll my eyes at font complaints but now I get where he was coming from.

rileyjones4d agoOG Member

I swapped my usual settings to a sans serif font at 14pt and it honestly made reading so much easier. Took maybe two days to get used to it but now I can't go back lol.

ray_king1d ago

I swear I read somewhere that like 80% of people pick a font based on vibes alone and never change it, which is wild when you think about how much time we spend staring at text.