Join the Fun!

Noted

Final score:

403points

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Thomas Murphy 5 years ago

calling the police on Willesden Electricity Department

91points

Apparently Scary Jesus Is A Thing

Final score:

392points

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Vic 5 years ago

When you are on a fishing trip. Walks on water behind you and goes BOO!!

154points

One of the online communities where similar text design fails are shared daily is the subreddit ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside,’ which prides itself on collecting the most egregious examples of signs and media that don’t make any sense if you read them normally. The community, which was established in May 2014, is large, having grown to over 513,000 members.

Bored Panda reached out to the 'Don't Dead Open Inside' subreddit moderators. According to one of them, the community was inspired to form because of the 'Don't Dead Open Inside' frame from the very first episode of the hit TV show The Walking Dead.

According to one moderator, people make mistakes while designing text because "they're either not thinking or they want to be original. Our main mission statement is to show them that they are wrong."

They also had advice for those individuals willing to step up their game design-wise: "People in the west read left to right, then top to bottom. Do not "liven up" your text by making it "quirky". Hard to read means lost attention which translates to lost revenue."

Five Extremely Slow Children Playing

Final score:

385points

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TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago

Seems rude

120points

This Terribly Worded Sign I Saw Today. Sorry, I’ll Pick Up My Dog’s Poop... Wouldn’t Want To Ruin Your Child Eating Experience

Final score:

383points

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Sarahí Covarrubias 5 years ago

Like Maruchan's cups say: Warning serving children

54points

Well, Uh... I Guess That's A Good Motto

Final score:

377points

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Kaisu 5 years ago

At least they're honest!

136points

Canva has some handy tips for those of you willing to up your design game when it comes to words. For example, Canva suggests that you limit the number of fonts that you use and use simple ones, rather than complex ones that might not mesh together well.

Attention

Final score:

364points

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Sveta Smirnova 5 years ago

No wonder the toilet is always empty

174points

Thanks For The Advice

Final score:

336points

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Martata 5 years ago

If anxiety could speak

183points

Baby Needs Beers & Wines

Final score:

328points

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Lana Raven 5 years ago

i think it’s mommy who needs that

163points

Spacing, something most of us rarely think about, is also important and can bring about radically different effects simply by eliminating the negative space between letters, words, and sentences.

#10

Experience

Final score:

316points

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TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago

Where do I sign up?!

110points

#11

This Habitat For Humanity Van

Final score:

301points

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Hello it Smee 5 years ago

Hahaha, this is my favorite one on this list

74points

#12

So My Campus Had A Suicide Awareness And Prevention Day

Final score:

299points

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Hello it Smee 5 years ago

Come try our Kool Aide, it's killer.

191points

Meanwhile, colors are equally important: use them to your advantage to create harmony between different parts of the text. Use contrasting and complementary colors. Lines can be used to guide the reader’s attention and create symmetry; however, badly used lines can turn a sign or a design into a catastrophe. Think you’ve got all that? Good. Let us know how you’d fix the text designs in this list.

#13

No Safety. Smoking First

Final score:

292points

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Grapeling 5 years ago

Light the place on fire while you're at it :p

65points

#14

Who Else Is Donating To End Children?

Final score:

290points

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Hello it Smee 5 years ago

Sound like a vasectomy advertisement.

126points

#15

Don't Save A Life. Be Afraid To Give Blood

Final score:

282points

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Grapeling 5 years ago

Thank you this is very helpful. I'll tell me friends too :D

65points

#16

Do I Push?

Final score:

268points

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Orillion 5 years ago

If you can't push it, why is it even there!?

129points

#17

If You Hard, Then You Hard

Final score:

266points

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Vic 5 years ago

Yeah what can you do about it.. not like you control it..

107points

EtherealSponge 4 years ago

Technically, erm, the truth

1point

Ale_Vidal23 5 years ago

every dude explaining what happens in the morning

36points

Hello it Smee 5 years ago

Welcome to puberty boys.

21points

Amber Turk 5 years ago

This was posted during ''Erection Awareness Month''.

12points

Jeremy Porter 5 years ago

If you're hard, have a wank

5points

tuzdayschild 5 years ago

If you right, then you right

5points

Jjjane20 5 years ago

I am curious where this sign was, could be even funnier..

4points

Incognito 5 years ago

look, sharon. if you're hard, you can't change it. If you're hard, then you hard.

3points

char 4 years ago

yeah jEez sharon when you hard you hard

0points

Richard Machemehl 5 years ago

It has a mind of its own.

2points

it's me again 5 years ago

They make a pill for this now.

2points

Johanna Mueller 5 years ago

Well it's not my fault it just happens......

2points

Rench 5 years ago

True story!

2points

Hiie Posti 4 years ago

I didn't know it! The more u know

1point

May Day 5 years ago

XD This should be censored.

1point

Dianna 5 years ago

Should end with, "Get involved with Extramarital Sports!"

1point

Douglas Campbell 5 years ago

Why would anyone want to play hard?

1point

Trisha Lynn 5 years ago

Facts are facts. 🤣

1point

Chyppa Homer 5 years ago

"Intramural" - what a pretentious way to say indoor. Albeit, when you hard, you should take it inside :D

1point

Donna Reynolds 5 years ago

Can’t deny that.

1point

Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago

Did somebody take some recreational Viagra...?

1point

NightmaresNope 2 years ago

The sideways work and play doesn't even look like part of the phrase. It's just ugly now.

0points

Oshari Taylor 2 years ago (edited)

W E B U I L D E X C I T E M E N T T R A N S P O R T

0points

BECKETT BUCKLEY 2 years ago

If you work hard, then you hard workplay.

0points

Tianjun Xu 4 years ago

Favorite sign on the list

0points

Magic lady 5 years ago

Wonder what sport they have in mind

0points

Carole Gleed 5 years ago

That’s nature.

0points

Setsuko Ishikawa 5 years ago

omg if you hard someone needs to take responsibility, any yaoi will tell you that

0points

Anja Schmidt 5 years ago

said from the hard.

0points

Pippa Runs 5 years ago

Lol!

0points

STicKy 5 years ago

weew! Slow clap for this...

0points

Trav May 5 years ago

That's what she said.

0points

Deni La Force 5 years ago

AMEN!

0points

JJM 5 years ago

No comment could possibly justify this..........................

0points

Dr.Scott 5 years ago

The great scholar Jameis Winston once said, "And I said…we said…I said, ‘Are you strong?’ They said, ‘I’m strong if you strong.’ I said, ‘We strong, then.’”

0points

Daria B 5 years ago

This one is nsfw ♥

0points

#18

Sorry Guys, You Can’t Let Your Pets Cook Bicycles Here

Final score:

262points

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Restless 5 years ago

But my dogs love cooking bicycles!

130points

#19

Hood On vs. Hood Off

Final score:

256points

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Jjjane20 5 years ago

In case you'd like to change your mind.

86points

#20

Please Do Not Take It Home. Leave Litter Here

Final score:

251points

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Grapeling 5 years ago

What do they LeArN in environmental management these days???

53points

#21

Just Purchased This Low Quality Fried Chicken At The Grocery Store

Final score:

240points

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Rissie 5 years ago

Honest advertising?

68points

#22

If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?

Final score:

232points

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Holosexual 5 years ago

This is so stressful no I wouldn't know what accident to do, this is too much responsibility

131points

#23

Smash Immigrants Welcome Racism

Final score:

224points

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Vic 5 years ago

Racist Hulk be Racist..

80points

#24

Honey, I Think We're Supposed To Turn Right

Final score:

221points

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TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago

Don’t dead open inside

78points

#25

I Only Saw The Left Window At First And Got Very Confused

Final score:

208points

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Martata 5 years ago

Selsful living is a good way of putting it

57points

#26

This New Wall Art In My Office

Final score:

199points

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Fuzztone 5 years ago

I have no idea what it is even trying to say.

191points

#27

Our To Help Trollies You Move

Final score:

191points

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Lazy Panda 5 years ago

This doesn’t make sense either way...

146points

#28

7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans

Final score:

189points

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Hello it Smee 5 years ago

I get the stupid title, but seriously black bean smoothies sounds gross!!!!!!!

139points

So I Fart Old Dust

Final score:

187points

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Jason Doakes 5 years ago

Well, this makes just as much sense as the original thought...

85points

#30

They Are, In Fact, A Particular Sub-Species Of Rock

Final score:

187points

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Martata 5 years ago

The safe ones are not so bad

71points

#31

The Design School I Graduated From Sent This Postcard Out

Final score:

185points

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Hello it Smee 5 years ago

No thanks, you haven't even figured it out yet.

131points

#32

Stand Hong With Kong

Final score:

182points

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European other 5 years ago

Hong and Kong need to get together

67points

#33

When Your Gym Tryies Hard To Motivate You But Fails To Make Any Sense

Final score:

170points

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Jessamyn Zolcznski 5 years ago

Trying to be Yoda you are

146points

#34

Truly Inspiring

Final score:

167points

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Hello it Smee 5 years ago

Looks like a drunk text.

89points

#35

Vicious Inc... What?!

Final score:

166points

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Jane Doe 5 years ago

Well he’s not lying there, incest is usually vicious

80points

#36

This Monstrosity

Final score:

157points

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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago

So they are happy when I'm miserable?

87points

From Afar, This Sign Has A Completely Different Meaning

Final score:

157points

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Sarahí Covarrubias 5 years ago

Someone has problems with children

57points

#38

Wet Private Clay Parties

Final score:

154points

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Tiggy Darling 5 years ago

My favourite. But I do have the humour of a 9 year old.

71points

#39

Burn Increase

Final score:

145points

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Jjjane20 5 years ago (edited)

And this must be higher than she is 😂

113points

#40

Never Ever Ever Beef. Frozen Always

Final score:

141points

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Holosexual 5 years ago

- Elsa

48points

Note: this post originally had 108 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.

Audrius is a Visual Information Data Researcher here at Bored Panda with a BA in Photography. Before Bored Panda, he was a journalist, later a guy that sells computers, and a one more little later he caught a passion for photography and settled there for good. Audrius loves cruising the town on his bicycle with a camera in his backpack in search for the perfect photo. He likes science fiction and fantasy, has read hundreds of books and watched all the sci-fi movies. Literally. All of them. If you have anything to say to him, feel free to write him at audrius.p@boredpanda.com

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Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

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What do you think ?

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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago

Do people learn to read from top to bottom and then from left to right these days? In my time we went left to right, then top top to bottom...

16points

Rissie 5 years ago

There is such a thing as separated columns, and many try to accomplish that effect. Without success :)

7points

Yehudit Hannah Cohn 5 years ago

Do people learn to read . . . because that's exactly what it says in the article.

0points

Dippin Dot 5 years ago

Chinese read top to bottom starting from the left column. I imagine that’s why a lot of these are wrong... especially the ones that are manufactured... in China.

0points

JeffC 5 years ago

Nope it's just people trying too hard to be different lol

0points

Rebekah 5 years ago

Is it odd that I walk away from these posts feeling superior?

8points

Bob Beltcher 5 years ago (edited)

N o p e p o N

5points

Jacey Lynn 4 years ago

Hmmm 🤔 interesting...but some are funny!

1point

Glynis Lailann 5 years ago

The above photos were giving me a headache. the above headache were giving me photos. Either migraine way I have.

1point

Douglas Campbell 5 years ago

Very funny post.

1point

Tiggy Darling 5 years ago

I understand how many of them came to be. I often have to write signs and do display boards. Sometimes you're focussing on the spacing, shapes, colours, fixing the words up etc so much you forget basic spelling.

1point

Kai 5 years ago

This was so funny 😂😂😂😂😂 I almost splitted my coffee with some of them.

1point

Ola Polowczyk 5 years ago

How do you split coffee? :D

2points

darubyprincess 5 years ago

kid floating in hallway memes intensift

0points

Jordan W. 5 years ago

Coming to the end of the 108#, I got so bored as this article made me identify the right way too read it straight away..

0points

Danielle Renee 5 years ago

man, some people just shouldn't be given any creative control

0points

Kelly Maracle 5 years ago

I went to Toys R Us and used their bathroom. The sign there said For Brst Customer Service Please Flush..... how would they know? Lol

0points

Carole Gleed 5 years ago

It amazes me what people write on signs don’t they read them through before putting them up.

0points

Jaybird3939 5 years ago

Reminds me of The Walking Dead. On the Back one side said Don't Dead-the other side said Open Inside, so it was supposed to read Don't Open Dead Inside, but it didn't really work when one of the doors was open.

0points

Marilyn Slater 5 years ago

Some (or maybe all!) of the people who wrote those notices will be shouting, 'You know what I mean, though!', and often, sadly, we don't.

0points

bill marsano 5 years ago

These remind me of a Volvo TV commercial of a decade back. Touting advanced safety features, it said "Brakes apply automatically in case of an accident." Nice--but too late, no?

0points

未周陸 5 years ago

Basically, Just Prepare Yourself for Non-Stop LOL-ing ......

0points

Grace Skerp 5 years ago

Proof, if more were needed, that one should never edited their own writing. On the other, these signs could have passed through several levels of management and still were approved.

0points

Lois Harach 5 years ago

I think I'm going to delete Bored Panda. I don't understand the 1st one, & can't find the other 39! Must have missed when I went straight & turned left...

0points

Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago

I don't understand why these scrambled sentence are considered 'artistic'.

0points

Fixin'Ta 5 years ago

Oh, my gosh, I needed that laugh tonight! These were so awful and hilarious! Thank you, Bored Panda (and horrid graphic/text/sign designers).

0points

Rench 5 years ago

I get a feeling of deja Vu looking at these. I know I've seen a post like this on here before.....

0points

Audrius P. (Post author) 5 years ago

no you didn't :)

0points

Lola 5 years ago

The power of punctuation.

0points

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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago

Do people learn to read from top to bottom and then from left to right these days? In my time we went left to right, then top top to bottom...

16points

Rissie 5 years ago

There is such a thing as separated columns, and many try to accomplish that effect. Without success :)

7points

Yehudit Hannah Cohn 5 years ago

Do people learn to read . . . because that's exactly what it says in the article.

0points

Dippin Dot 5 years ago

Chinese read top to bottom starting from the left column. I imagine that’s why a lot of these are wrong... especially the ones that are manufactured... in China.

0points

JeffC 5 years ago

Nope it's just people trying too hard to be different lol

0points

Rebekah 5 years ago

Is it odd that I walk away from these posts feeling superior?

8points

Bob Beltcher 5 years ago (edited)

N o p e p o N

5points

Jacey Lynn 4 years ago

Hmmm 🤔 interesting...but some are funny!

1point

Glynis Lailann 5 years ago

The above photos were giving me a headache. the above headache were giving me photos. Either migraine way I have.

1point

Douglas Campbell 5 years ago

Very funny post.

1point

Tiggy Darling 5 years ago

1point

Kai 5 years ago

This was so funny 😂😂😂😂😂 I almost splitted my coffee with some of them.

1point

Ola Polowczyk 5 years ago

How do you split coffee? :D

2points

darubyprincess 5 years ago

kid floating in hallway memes intensift

0points

Jordan W. 5 years ago

Coming to the end of the 108#, I got so bored as this article made me identify the right way too read it straight away..

0points

Danielle Renee 5 years ago

man, some people just shouldn't be given any creative control

0points

Kelly Maracle 5 years ago

I went to Toys R Us and used their bathroom. The sign there said For Brst Customer Service Please Flush..... how would they know? Lol

0points

Carole Gleed 5 years ago

It amazes me what people write on signs don’t they read them through before putting them up.

0points

Jaybird3939 5 years ago

0points

Marilyn Slater 5 years ago

Some (or maybe all!) of the people who wrote those notices will be shouting, 'You know what I mean, though!', and often, sadly, we don't.

0points

bill marsano 5 years ago

These remind me of a Volvo TV commercial of a decade back. Touting advanced safety features, it said "Brakes apply automatically in case of an accident." Nice--but too late, no?

0points

未周陸 5 years ago

Basically, Just Prepare Yourself for Non-Stop LOL-ing ......

0points

Grace Skerp 5 years ago

Proof, if more were needed, that one should never edited their own writing. On the other, these signs could have passed through several levels of management and still were approved.

0points

Lois Harach 5 years ago

I think I'm going to delete Bored Panda. I don't understand the 1st one, & can't find the other 39! Must have missed when I went straight & turned left...

0points

Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago

I don't understand why these scrambled sentence are considered 'artistic'.

0points

Fixin'Ta 5 years ago

Oh, my gosh, I needed that laugh tonight! These were so awful and hilarious! Thank you, Bored Panda (and horrid graphic/text/sign designers).

0points

Rench 5 years ago

I get a feeling of deja Vu looking at these. I know I've seen a post like this on here before.....

0points

Audrius P. (Post author) 5 years ago

no you didn't :)

0points