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Re:Pantone 448 C by mortenjorck on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:04AM (#22135541)
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]

Re:Pantone 448 C by varjag on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:17AM (#22136083)
Could be one of few legit uses for Comic Sans.
Re:Pantone 448 C by Chris2048 on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:10AM (#22137090)
Perhaps when they bury nuclear waste, they can warn off future civilisations with stone tablets etched in comic sans?
Re:Pantone 448 C by thecyborganizer on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:34AM (#22139102)
Re:Pantone 448 C by tdy721 on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:28AM (#22139667)
For our future robot overlords:

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

Re:Pantone 448 C by m-p-3 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:22PM (#22140331)
As well as some ClipArts to tie it together
Re:Pantone 448 C by thrwaway69 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:11AM (#22135568)
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.

Re:Pantone 448 C by dehrmann on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:24AM (#22135623)
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.
Re:Pantone 448 C by pushpop on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:06AM (#22136300)
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
Re:Pantone 448 C by batat on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:36AM (#22139775)
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/

Re:Pantone 448 C by louniks on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:52AM (#22139264)
You just got all the 90s kids hooked on skruf.
Re:Pantone 448 C by freehunter on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:21PM (#22140324)
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.
Re:Pantone 448 C by hammerbrostime on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:46AM (#22138692)
So well done. Wish I could upvote more.