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Holly Williams for Art-Sheep

If grammar and spelling can, indeed, make a real difference sometimes, then the same can be said about letter spacing. Why? Well, you only have to check the following examples of truly unfortunate “kerning” ( aka the process of adjusting the spacing between characters), be it handwritten or on a sign, to see its hilarious effects for yourselves.

 

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1. Imagine the look on this shopkeeper’s face when he realized that he had spent-what I presume was quite a considerable amount of money on this sign. Appearing twice.

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2. Here, not only is the kerning quite unfortunate, but the “computer mouse” image on the left, really does nothing to help with the whole situation.

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3. Order. If you dare.

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4. Not very helpful with the whole “marketing thing” there.

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5. Clint, maybe the barista is trying to tell you something.

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6. Someone, somewhere is deeply regretting this.

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7. The what now?

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8. Probably the source of some serious misunderstandings.

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9. I can see a pattern here…

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10. Apparently, none of them were given about the sign in question.

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11. Someone, obviously, did not think this through.

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12. You lost us there, Walmart.

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13. Not very appetizing.

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14. Oh, LEGO…

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15. We all fervently hope the word here is “final”.

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