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keep it simple

September 21st, 2009 | Category: design,typography | Author: Jonathan

keep_it_simple

I just saw this poster on the ilovetypography.com shop by the great Seb Lester (more on him later) and thought it was just a great little reminder for us designers.

While we love the fun ornate typefaces and love to look for ways to use them in the proper form, we see way too many times (more often than not) them being used poorly or overly used. Sometimes it’s good to take a step back and to “keep it simple”.

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  1. Tweets that mention Brown Sugar Design Blog ยป keep it simple -- Topsy.com September 21st, 2009 10:04 am

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  2. RobbieLee at Chickiedee September 28th, 2009 5:45 pm

    I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for the little reminder…

  3. Brown Sugar Design Blog » inspiring typography illustrations September 30th, 2009 9:23 am

    [...] week we posted about Seb Lester and his ‘Keep it Simple” poster. We couldn’t leave it at that. We [...]

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