ThnLnk du Moment: meta swearing
From lascribe:
Since last year, Transport for London has been running a series of posters aiming at improving passengers’ behaviour. To soften the underlying stern injunctions (”Don’t push!”, “Don’t block the closing doors to squeeze in at the last moment!”, “Keep your music volume down!”, “Don’t eat smelly or drippy food on the Tube!”), the designers have added graphical elements to the lettering — playing with fonts, molding the typography into cute little signs: the dripping fat from a portion of fries, the sound waves emanating from an iPod.
The sign the post displays says: “D*n’t t@ke !t out on our staff.” So it uses punctuation to soften the blow of the message, but also analogizes it to cussing us out. Kind of passive aggressive, don’t you think?
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