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[parrotworks]

@AdderXYU

It might be instructive to show off one of my personal fave visual jokes from the early days of derbies.

http://derbyimages.woot.com/rglee129/!!!!!-zhkbv9-s.jpg

It was submit during a no-text derby, and was summarily rejected: https://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/22738

The takeaway: if something so purely visual can be axed for its use of text, probably so will your design’s use of text.

Adder! Welcome back to the fray

[benwyeth]

@benjaminleebates

If your gag requires and typographical element in order to communicate the joke, then rework it, or abandon it. That was the rule that I lived by back in the day.

Yep. BLB has nailed it. No text or typographical characters of any kind. Even anthropomorphized ones. If they’re necessary for your joke, save it for a future derby.