New Oscar Envelopes Have Huge Fonts To Avoid Last Year’s Design Fail
The most cringeworthy part of last year’s Academy Awards was when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the wrong winner for Best Picture.
It wasn’t their fault, someone backstage gave Beatty the envelope for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Emma Stone, La La Land) instead of the envelope for Best Picture (Moonlight).
Here’s what happened last year
Design and typography experts were quick to point out that the layout and tiny fonts on last year’s envelopes could have caused the goof up. This year, to avoid any kind of confusion, the Academy ensured that the envelopes were labeled with huge fonts.
Anyone else appreciate how they changed the design of the #Oscars envelopes to make it ridiculously clear what the envelope's category was? A design flaw they probably should have fixed ages ago. pic.twitter.com/20XN7MaAah
The envelope stack is getting smaller. Each time the accountant hands off an envelope to a presenter she says, “Confirming this is the envelope for (category name).” #Oscarspic.twitter.com/0AcJhGioxt
Shout out to the #dreamers! And, to avoid making the same gaffe as last year, the font on the #Oscars envelopes are so large, even @ElonMusk's #Spaceman can read the names of the winners.
— Lesley Abravanel 🪩 (@lesleyabravanel) March 5, 2018
Just noticed the #Oscars envelopes have the categories splashed on them in 48pt font to make sure nobody gets Moonlighted. #Oscars2018#justincase
The #Oscars spending a solid ten seconds of airtime zooming in on that “Best Picture” envelope with the huge font is basically just a way to be blameless… just in case.
