[Matthias1]

I don’t agree with a lot of this article. I think the font looks excellent, I appreciate coherencies across a brand’s design, and most of all, I think the purpose of a score indicator over a football game is to tell you the score, and get out of the way.

That being said, these are opinions, and I’m glad there’s someone else who pays attention to the design language used by football broadcasters.

[ddek]

> That being said, these are opinions, and I’m glad there’s someone else who pays attention to the design language used by football broadcasters.

I feel like once you have the knowledge to pay attention to design language you are now cursed to do so everywhere. It's like the curse of a trained ear - congratulations on being able to hear any chord progression, now you can't escape every song you ever liked being the same 4 chords over and over again.

[jsjohnst]

> I feel like once you have the knowledge to pay attention to design language you are now cursed to do so everywhere.

For a long time in my career as a software engineer I mostly avoided this, but a little over a decade ago I had a designer who beat tiny details into everyone on the team. I kinda feel like he took away my innocence to some extent, as I can’t look at fonts, colors, and other design details anymore without noticing all the flaws so pervasive all around us.

[adzm]

> I feel like once you have the knowledge to pay attention to design language you are now cursed to do so everywhere.

It is very true. A common example is kerning (hence the joke, keming). Once you learn the nuances of spacing between letters you start to notice it everywhere.

There was also a great SNL skit about a graphics designer who was haunted by the Avatar logo which was simply the papyrus font.

[mattbrewsbytes]

I've never paid any attention to the UX of the score box until I read this. I agree with a lot of the sentiment and the tone of the article is hilarious. Most fans watching sports only look at score boxes when they were away from the broadcast for some reason. If you are intensely watching your favorite team, you don't even need a score box.

I've seen corporate re-branding efforts first hand and his introspection to how, potentially, CBS is always about the CBS-way is kinda funny. This is kind of like how I think system integration issues inside a software company almost are a tell of how the org is structured.