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Originally Posted by Tom Punks
I think a huge part of the problem with the font though is they made it white... on a very light section of the photo... and then used a tacky ass drop shadow to make it legible. Even though the font choice itself is still pretty awful, they could've removed at least half the ugly if they'd made it a nice blue or something and got rid of the shadow.
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So very this... x_x I think they shoulda moved the photos down so there was more dark space at the top where they could have put the text. That would have looked 1000x nicer.
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Originally Posted by Tom Punks
Edit: I just looked at the covers again and realized... It's Helvetica, isn't it? Like srsly? No wonder it looks so cheap.
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Helvetica has kinda been ayu's designers' go-to font for her forever. (What fans commonly mistake as being Impact on alot of her DVDs is actually Helvetica Bold Condensed) Helvetica is a tricky beast though - you have to use it properly. The thin Helvetica looks gorgeous on the "RAINBOW" cover for example, it doesn't look cheap at all because it's used properly. On many, many other ayu cds, however, that's obviously not the case lol... this included. This should have been just straight thin Helvetica like on RAINBOW and it would have looked MUCH less offensive x_x
EDITED: Tested out my theories.... yeah, this would have been much better. Much less amateurish & cheap at the very least.
