• Feydaikin@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    This cannot have been made by anyone with legibility in mind.

    Small black text, straight down the middle on a colored shirt…? Come on, I’m not a designer by any means, but even I know that if you go black text on a colored background, you highlight it with some borders.

    Secondly, text that small? You can go bigger. Or you make it wider, from pit to pit across the chest.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I wonder if the poor legibility is part of the point. I would not wear an outrageous t-shirt such as this in public, but I would be even less likely to wear a more legible version — precisely because more people would be able to read it. Poor legibility may evoke curiosity in some people who are too far to read it, and perhaps even result in a humorous surprise when someone who could not originally read the text moves close enough to read it.

      Smaller text feels like a whisper, and maybe that’s the effect the designer was going for