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by ddek 1716 days ago
> 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.
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jsjohnst 1716 days ago
> 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.

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adzm 1716 days ago
> 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.

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