Everything I said about Univers I take it back, I TAKE IT BACK.
STOP HAUNTING MY DREAMS.…

And the 2010 Phallic Ampersand Award goes too…drum roll…
AD Mono!
Some great suggestions coming into the Shit& inbox – why not share yours! If it ranks highly on the Shitometer… I’ll post it here. (Providing I have that particular

Before the devil took his soul the designer scratched a final message onto the front of his limited edition Moleskine.
Then he was banished into the fiery pits for eternity. Probably being forced to hand-paint Pantone mugs.…

Unusually for this blog FF Scala… isn’t such a bad font. Which makes you wonder what went wrong here.

Wedgie, wedge? Something like that. Doesn’t even fit into my image and hell if I’m going to waste my Photoshop skills on it. But I will print it out and wedge it under my door, ’cause it’s stinking up my…

Must be difficult being a font designer. You get all that way, saving the best character for last, and when it’s all done, it looks like a swastika.…

Rotate this 90° clockwise and I’ll leave your imagination to draw in the rest.
Apparently “Bernie Bold is a flexible font. It can be used for large typesetting, desktop publishing and many other applications.”… – Yeah…. No.

Wish I hadn’t wasted the word shitastic… in an earlier post. Look at this thing! Christ. I won’t sleep well tonight.

Despite being a complete train wreck I bet… you’re still looking for any excuse to use Pepperwood. Don’t worry the indie heavy metal circus and music festival will come knocking soon. Just you wait.
And if not, I’m sure you can convince

LOL.
The font is actually designed for showing keyboard instructions within documentation which ain’t necessarily a bad idea. Until you go searching for the ampersand key*.
* only Macs have ampersand keys, that’ll be why graphic designers need ‘em.…

Apologies for the previous few posts I didn’t mean for this blog to be so crude. It just breaks my heart when I see a shit ampersand :(
In reality I don’t actually give a shit. And speaking of which…

This one looks less like an ampersand and more like Ren & Stimpy’s cock and balls.…

Pile of dog shit is what I see, nice and fluffy with an impressive peak. The only thing missing are steam lines rising majestically towards the heavens. For some reason that chapter is missing from most typography books.
But then…

There have been a few comments concerning my knowledge of typography history. I’m perfectly aware of such things (I just read the Wikipedia page). So stick this ampersand up your arse!
I joke! You can choose a softer one.…

The ampersand of Asenine bears many resemblances to a mutated sperm. Hmm, ampersperm? I certainly wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole in any case.…