This was a very informative little article, and overall it highlights how legibility is the most important aspect of text. Functionality comes before aesthetics every time. I remember this incident, and I remember how everyone made fun of the woman who announced the wrong winner and acted like she had done something stupid. I never knew it was the fault of whoever designed the card. It's nice to see this highlighted and will absolutely add to my perspective on situations like this in the future.
The most important things being the largest and the things that should be read first being at the top makes perfect sense. I can't imagine how annoying it would be to read a book where the body text was huge and tiny headers. It feels uncanny just thinking about it.
I actually found an example of typography mattering on my own this weekend by chance. I was scrolling through Reddit, and a Doctor Who quote list popped up. It had pictures of each "Doctor" in the background and whatever their best quote was. The issue was that the text was pure white on top of these images and blended into the background constantly. They also used a really stylized cursive font for these fairly lengthy quotes. I almost got a headache trying to interpret them.
Overall, highlighting the most important quality of text - legibility - is important to focus on. It's a bit unappreciated by the average person compared to things like style and color but is the foundation for actually reading something.
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