That time I used the wrong font for a wedding invite and it backfired

I chose this fancy script font for a wedding invite without thinking about print size, lol. When it got printed, you couldn't read a thing on the small cards. The couple was pretty upset, and I had to reprint the whole batch. Now I never skip testing fonts in actual size before sending anything to print.

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evac401mo ago

Oof, I feel that pain deep in my soul. There's nothing worse than seeing your design completely fail in print. I learned the hard way too, always make a physical proof now, even if it's just on my home printer. Something about tiny script text just turns into a fancy blob. It's a brutal lesson but you only need to learn it once.

margaret_white481mo ago

Printers have a special way of turning our best ideas into blobs, don't they @evac40. It's like they take personal offense to fancy script fonts. That physical proof step really is the only defense against their sabotage.

gibson.elizabeth1mo ago

Ugh, reminds me of when I used that tiny decorative font on a poster... from a distance it just looked like a weird textured line, nobody could read the event details.