I was do certain that they were trying to hide everything that I painfully read the whole thing and nothing. Just bad design.

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[–] 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Try looking at legally required ingredient and nutritional labels on food and you're in for a shock, light grey on white, yellow on white, label across a square corner, it's clearly intentional and nobody seems to care.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Is this an American thing? In Europe i only ever see black on white for nutritional labels

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Amazingly, the us actually has decent nutrition labels that are white background with black text and very clearly formatted

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Expiration dates however, are another matter. If/when you can find them on packaging, they’re often unreadable/worn off/too tiny to see without magnification.

    I wish the Feds would force manufacturers to print the expiration date either on the white nutrition label, or directly above the UPC code — 8 pt or larger black type on white background.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Probably looked fine on the designer's monitor.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    The photo also isn't very good.

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    As a beauty product it's keeping packaging fashionable while keeping the info. I don't think this would be legal for a drink or food item.

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    Apple.

    Form over function.

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