Bad Color Selection + Bad Movie = Bad All Over
Type for You pointed us to this wonderful post over at J. Tyler Helms‘ site: “Red is Not Funny.” Sick of seeing red being used in the main title of far too many movie posters for terrible, terrible comedies, and understanding that the color isn’t often used to express humor, he decided to compile a long collage of snippets of posters that have used it, thus proving his point. It’s brilliant. And his short closing paragraph seals the deal:
The clumsily obese sans type; the blinding white background safely voiding the cutout actors of context.
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