#starting a whole ass newspaper so i can publish an article complaining about how boring that is | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

transmalewife · 1 year

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how can gifmakers be so incredibly skilled with color, composition, symbolism, editing and all the technical skills involved and then hide all that stunning work behind a typographic atrocity the likes of which have never before been seen in any other medium. i am begging you learn anything about matching fonts and background contrast because your work is illegible!!

#and just to be very clear i don’t mean that their work is too ‘gaudy’ or too the fonts are too silly #believe me no one is more against the helvetica on white background helscape that design has become i am literally in the process of #starting a whole ass newspaper so i can publish an article complaining about how boring that is #i’m all for silly funny fonts and mixing and matching. BUT. if you have a semitransparent swirly cursive on top of two superimposed moving #images full of chaotic detail then i simply cannot read the fucking letters!!!#also some fonts just don’t vibe with the media you’re using them for and each other and it’s a big mess #that does nothing but hide the breataking gorgeous gif underneath #mine.

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