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Comment by mortenjorck | Hacker News Reader

If the design brief was to make something unappealing, that does indeed look like a total failure. The restrained typography and muted color give the product a more upmarket look.

What this really called for was the Impact font, Microsoft WordArt, gradients, drop shadows, and maybe some stock photography.

[Update: I have answered the call: http://presteign.com/files/skruf.jpg]

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Could be one of few legit uses for Comic Sans.

Perhaps when they bury nuclear waste, they can warn off future civilisations with stone tablets etched in comic sans?

https://i.imgur.com/1G4oZj5.png

For our future robot overlords:

<blink font="Comic Sans">This is not a place of honor.</blink>

As well as some ClipArts to tie it together

Give it dark pink-purple-green or rainbow gradient with coarse dotted look and capitalised water colored font.

I would stay very far away from it then.

Scandinavian design. But the tin looks completely different from General. I asked a Swede, but I can't remember the different markets those brands are going after.

I love the update. That has to be one of the funniest and most creative posts on here I’ve seen in a while. Good work

Looks pretty much like "fixed price logos" made by russian designer Artemy Lebedev[1]. People keeps buying them for 100,000 RUB (~1600 USD).

[1] https://www.artlebedev.ru/express-design/projects/

You just got all the 90s kids hooked on skruf.

Half the meme posts on Reddit look exactly like that. I have no doubt anyone who released a product labeled like that would cause Juul to go out of business within weeks.

So well done. Wish I could upvote more.

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