ROSES ARE GREEN, VIOLETS ARE YELLOW.

colorblind-teex500.jpgA T-shirt from TypeTees, a subsidary of Threadless. I like the sentiment, and the colors are perfect. The font, Century Schoolbook, is a good choice. But . . . the letterspacing is too tight, AND SOMEBODY MUST HAVE HIT THE CAPS LOCK; THE MONOTONOUS OF CAPITALS IS ANNOYING AND EVEN, TO MY EYE, OBNOXIOUS. I would have preferred some lower-case letters. It’s poetry, right? I don’t understand why the variation in leading between colors was necessary, unless it was to  give the screenprinters of error. And . . .
a hatch mark, a foot sign, rather than an actual apostrophe? Typographically, this shirt is a trainwreck. But still, it’s funny. I’ll give it a B+.

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