True Tales

California Company’s Worst-Ever Typo? It’s a Funny Story …

A few thousand brochures were printed featuring the graphic designer’s “inspiration”.

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2 years ago

April 22, 2024

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our worst typo? Instead of using Greek text, a graphic designer was being a little too creative and wrote a funny story as a placeholder for a product description. Of course, it was not caught and we printed a few thousand brochures for an event that featured his story. The last we heard, he was at Kinko’s trying to staple pages into the book. — Ryan Clark, Direct Edge, Anaheim, CA

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