{"id":32382,"date":"2012-04-12T23:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T03:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32382"},"modified":"2020-06-29T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:27:39","slug":"georgias-new-licenses-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32382","title":{"rendered":"Georgia\u2019s new licenses suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can we say, overdesigned?<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, I had to renew my driver\u2019s license.\u00a0 Having seen a few people with the new format already, I dreaded doing such, and I had hoped that mine would be sort of grandfathered in some clause stating that I would get the old format, since that\u2019s how my first Georgia license was like.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that did not turn out to be the case, and just the other night, I got in the mail, my new state-issued Georgia driver\u2019s license.<\/span><\/p>\n

As hard as it is for some people to believe, I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>a graphic designer, and therefore I do feel that I have a modicum of authority when it comes to judging the way things look.\u00a0 That being said, I really, really dislike the direction the state of Georgia has gone in their drivers\u2019 licenses.\u00a0 It\u2019s like there was a list of security features they wanted to incorporate which is fine and all, since security is very important when it comes to state-issued identification.\u00a0 But when it came to executing the design of the new licenses, they simply fell, face first onto a steaming pile of failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was really pleased when I got my first Georgia driver\u2019s license.\u00a0 I never really liked the ones of Virginia, especially how they used to do a whole lot of stupid shit, like having portrait-oriented licenses for those under 21, and having a side-view mugshot as your picture, since\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0is how the cops will see you when they pull you over to write $1,000+ speeding tickets.\u00a0 So I felt it was a step up when I handed in my Virginia license and was issued my Georgia one, way back when.<\/span><\/p>\n

The old Georgia license was simple, classy, basic, and still maintained identity of the state.\u00a0 A nice font for Georgia, instead of the boring, bold-caps Times Roman or Arial that so many other states use on their licenses.\u00a0 A small branch of peaches, indicative of what Georgia\u2019s most widely known for, for a little bit of local association.\u00a0 And basic Century Gothic typeface for all of the pertinent information.\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 Vanilla.\u00a0 Convenient.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new one, is simply put an apocalypse of color, bad layout, and orgasm of security features, splattered all about.\u00a0 Now I won\u2019t really question the things done in the name of security, like having my picture\u00a0three times<\/em>\u00a0on the card, as well as my signature\u00a0twice<\/em>\u00a0on it.\u00a0 But the rest of the design is just an abysmal presentation of failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much like the failure that is the\u00a0City of Atlanta\u2019s logo<\/a>, for some reason, the entire State of Georgia decided that they needed to have a logo, and therefore\u00a0one now exists<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how many other states in the country actually have official logos, but I can\u2019t help but think that there are definitely better ways to spend tax dollars than fucking logos.\u00a0 But anyway, since a logo exists, it clearly must be a part of the state\u2019s issued identification.<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, we have the pink\/peach-ish\/green colors completely all over the entire motherfucker, in a gross display of excessive color.\u00a0 This license goes from a fucking 0.0 to a 4.0 if the background color were simply just white.\u00a0 Such considerations would easily make the peach watermark in the background of the information field pop better, and frankly, the logo at the top left corner stand out more, since there\u2019s no color to compete with.\u00a0 But essentially, just like the bearer\u2019s picture, the peach manages to be on the license\u00a0three times<\/em>\u00a0as well.\u00a0 As the background color, the watermark, as well as in the logo.<\/span><\/p>\n

The information field is a parade of irrationally place floating text, with really no rhyme or reason to why which categories are floating around in which sections of the card.\u00a0 The tracking values are all jacked up, and nothing looks like it belongs anywhere.\u00a0 Even the words \u201cdriver\u2019s license\u201d isn\u2019t centered within the text area, and is just kind of floating out in limbo.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the worst of everything else is probably the fucking logo in general.\u00a0 The name \u201cGeorgia\u201d is practically one of the most important components of the identification, so that people can know what state you\u2019re from.\u00a0 But mired in the seas of pinks and peach colors, you can hardly see the name Georgia at all in the top left corner. \u00a0If anything at all, it looks like the fucking Georgia logo was the very last thing put into the layout, and whomever designed this piece of shit had gone so far overboard with everything else, that they didn\u2019t realize how tiny, disproportionate and illegible the logo actually would be, in the layout.\u00a0 I understand that logo designers want users to use the logo as appropriately as they created them, but in the industry, there\u00a0are <\/strong>such things allowed as exception.\u00a0 The text \u201cGeorgia\u201d needs to be darker, larger, and not constrained by the ratio of the peach graphic \u2013 it\u2019s not like there isn\u2019t more than ample space for it to fill up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man, I didn\u2019t realize I had this many words to describe my disdain for the current Georgia license.\u00a0 And this doesn\u2019t even factor in the fact that it\u2019s also on a different stock, which is noticeably thinner than the former, and makes it feel more, well, counterfeit and fake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Georgia\u2019s current license\u2019s grade:\u00a0 F.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, my old license technically doesn\u2019t expire until next week.\u00a0 Guess what\u2019s going to be in my wallet until then?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can we say, overdesigned? Recently, I had to renew my driver\u2019s license.\u00a0 Having seen a few people with the new format already, I dreaded doing such, and I had hoped that mine would be sort of grandfathered in some clause stating that I would get the old format, since that\u2019s how my first Georgia license … Continue reading Georgia\u2019s new licenses suck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,94,15,8],"class_list":["post-32382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-graphic-design","tag-og","tag-ohgeorgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32384,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions\/32384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}