The Idea
Have you ever found yourself in a social setting where someone’s inadequate social skills cause consternation to everyone around them? Of course you have. Have you ever wished there was a way to discreetly tell them that their behaviour is not OK?
Now you can. That Was Not OK is here to help. Print the cards, and keep them in your wallet for just just such situations.
The Design
For the web nerds out there, this turned out to be a fun showcase for what can be done with native font embedding via @font-face. Thanks to Jonathan Snook, Paul Irish and Font Squirrel for their terrific work in taking font embedding from a new and untested technology to an increasingly viable tool in the web design toolbelt.
For the embedded font, I turned to The League of Moveable Type’s brash Chunk, an ultra-bold slab serif that helped the typography shout at you. (If the font were less intimidating, I’d ask it why it’s missing an ampersand and smart quotes.) I found that the all-caps main title needed some serious kerning, but I’m really happy with the end product.
4 Comments
Great cards, and I have had many occasions when I could have used them — including last Friday, when a (I won’t say gentle)man outright told me he thought I should deceive my clients and use his services. Your cards might have been a bit too subtle for him! Love the card design as well, and will share.
@kelly cheers.
I gave a card to someone who was double dipping at a frat party we were having over at Stu’s flat in essex and it worked so well that we all went over to Julie’s computer and downloaded a whole bunch and then made Christmas ornaments out of them. It was so much fun that we did it again the next day only this time charlie had a whole stack and we tried to guess how many he had in his hand. That was a great gathering.
@Fred I am amused by your inventive use of the cards.