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Strange bolding Bolding entire words, cool. Bolding the first letter in a word, not so cool. Some strange inconsistencies at the Tampa Bay St Petersburg Times.

Strange bolding Bolding entire words, cool. Bolding the first letter in a word, not so cool. Some strange inconsistencies at the Tampa Bay St Petersburg Times.

Can someone call a psychic to tell us what this says? Sent in by Warren at Idea Sauce, from the Wellington broadsheet The Dominion Post. There was a complementary billboard at the Basin Reserve in the same city—which was even less legible considering people speed past it at 50 km/h.

Can someone call a psychic to tell us what this says? Sent in by Warren at Idea Sauce, from the Wellington broadsheet The Dominion Post. There was a complementary billboard at the Basin Reserve in the same city—which was even less legible considering people speed past it at 50 km/h.

Where’s ‘Melborne’? This was the headline for an advertising feature in the October 28, 2008 issue of City Life newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand. Not only were there ads on the spread with typos, the headline for the entire section had a missing U. A spellcheck, proofreader or sub-editor should have picked this up.

Where’s ‘Melborne’? This was the headline for an advertising feature in the October 28, 2008 issue of City Life newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand. Not only were there ads on the spread with typos, the headline for the entire section had a missing U. A spellcheck, proofreader or sub-editor should have picked this up.


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No excuse for this in 2008 Mixing Helvetica with Arial Narrow isn’t as big a sin as having a massive headline with strange capitalization and major typos. From the City Life newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, October 28, 2008.

No excuse for this in 2008 Mixing Helvetica with Arial Narrow isn’t as big a sin as having a massive headline with strange capitalization and major typos. From the City Life newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, October 28, 2008.