Maybe I’m stupid or missing something…I frequently don’t get tube ads but later find out I’ve missed something that was on a TV advert and relates to the printed ad but not sure that would be the case with a TFL advert. Funny thing is that i worked as a designer for years and I still don’t get it. Maybe if the gavel faced the opposite direction I could sort of see it? I’d love to understand if any one gets it!
by No-Clock2011
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I noticed that too, it’s definitely a choice. Designers trying to be smart I think.
You’re overthinking it
And gavels aren’t used in criminal courts in England and Wales…
This is a special design principle. The idea is that you create a design with next to no thought or effort often using ai
It’s called ‘poor design’
No the N has been squashed flat. It could have been any letter.
Its to spread awareness to the people of reddit, by reeling in the people it triggers enough to take a photo of it and post it 😉
I mean, the head of the gavel is at the same angle as the diagonal line in the letter N.
I think that’s all of it.
I think it’s okay, we all know it’s an n, and can see how it’s implied, it’s not that deep
You put it in the place where the N goes. Voilá.
I think, like YouTubers who put typos In their video titles for engagement, it’s deliberately irritating so you notice it, and perhaps post it to social media.
This is something I love about the tube. Because we all spend a bit of time there with not a lot to look at, you get so fixated on minor details like this.
I fully agree OP, that’s no N, consequeces sounds like a cheese you don’t want and we should shame whoever designed it. It’s unacceptable 😤 oh there is my stop.
I mean you still knew what it said?
I think the bigger issue is the pathetic sentence given for the sexual assault
Also, the gavel does not feature in criminal courts , at least not in England and Wales.
Made you take note. That’s a win.
Consequegavelces. Sounds like a lewd act involving a Spanish speaking person.
Conseque in French means consequently.
Ces in French means these.
So sexual offences and harassment have consequently these which could refer to the gavel/court sentence
It’s a good example of a marketing person having an idea and squeezing it into the product regardless of whether it actually fits.
Is that case at the bottom meant to set an example? That seems incredibly lenient. The best case they could find was for less than a year over a decade ago?
It’s easy to understand the word nonetheless.
Consequekces
It stands for “**N**ever used in an English courtroom”
The heavy line is the diagonal of N, so ConsequeNces.
If you had to pick a letter to swap for the gavel, I think this is a reasonable choice.
I spotted this ad the other day and was laughing at how dumb it was. Trying to teach you about consequences and the best example they can come up with is someone who sexually assaulted a police officer and got less than a year in jail.
Bad design
Unless you’re royalty of course, then you are free to force yourself on children and we will arrest people who point that out
-Metropolitan Police
Fun fact: No British judge has ever used a gavel, except on telly.
*Edit: admittedly, according to Stephen Fry on QI but I’m not arguing with hi~~~m~~~s researchers.
Does it need to? If you can still read it and immediately understand what they’re saying, then they’ve got their point across.
Only a pervert would criticise this poster
i would have put that as a Q
Probably would’ve made more sense as a Q and made it seem like a top-down video of a hammer on a gavel.
For the last time UK, there are NO GAVELS in UK courtrooms.
Shouldn’t this be in islamic text?
Feel like this would have more impact if the conviction was from the current year…
Should have had the gavel through the Q
It looks like an erection
So less than a nasty tweet.
The Q was right there…
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