Sunday, May 4, 2008

what happens in vegas stays at taco bell

so there's this new god-awful looking movie starring cameron diaz and a constipated-looking ashton kutcher called "what happens in vegas". if you've been stuck at home watching hours of TV like i have, you've probably seen a commercial for this. or maybe you saw it while it was plastered all over your myspace login screen.



immediately something bothered me about the TV and internet ads for this movie, but i couldn't put my finger on it. it was driving me crazy. then i realized it. it was the FONT. this isn't something i like to advertise to my friends, but i am a huge font nerd. i think the right font can make or break your poster/flyer/ad etc. sometimes i will spend hours downloading fonts onto my computer. it's weird, i know.

anyway, does the font look familiar?!

it should because they totally jacked it from taco bell. it's the font they've been using for years!



that is one serious font fuck-up.

5 comments:

Spaceboy said...

That font is horrible. Just plain horrible.

On_Her_Sleeve said...

If you haven't seen this already... this post made me think of this clip... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8

Tess said...

Oh holy crap, you're absolutely right. Ugh.

Noelle said...

Very close but different. look at the lower case "a" on the vegas poster it curves up at the bottom, on the taco bell poster its straight and the letter is more condensed.

:)

Amy said...

You're crackin' me up!