On Tuesday, the Liberal Party unveiled its big, shiny, new campaign tour buses after an early election call came over the weekend.
Ready to roll out. Here’s a sneak peek at our #elxn42 campaign buses!
Aren't they just wonderful?
Great design on the new @liberal_party bus! We're ready to roll! #cdnpoli https://t.co/aQs3M0KwV9
Wait, did you say something about the design?
Designers: notice what went wrong with the Liberal bus? HINT: #MyriadPro #elxn42 #design #typography
Myriad Pro is the default font in some design programs. Basically, there seems to have been an error that caused the graphics to be printed with the plain default font instead of the proper Liberal campaign font.
Compare & contrast #realchange: the art for #TeamTrudeau's bus wraps just wasn't ready. (h/t @jasonwagar) #elxn42
But note that Fancie works for the NDP.
What is more entertaining: that the Liberals screwed up the text on their bus, or that graphics nerds are making cheesy partisan puns as a result?
The latter, obviously.
Some picked up on another issue — "kerning" — a design process that can be used to get rid of those weird spaces between the letters.
Real ke r nin g. Looks like someone forgot to convert to outlines. #MyriadPro #LPC #RealChange #elxn42 #cdnpoli
@jasonwagar Nice keming.
@CrissaKentavr @Singedrac Always convert to outlines. Always.
"Converting to outlines" is apparently a way of modifying fonts to make sure they print properly.
To all of this, we only have one response:
