clientsfromhell:

Several years ago, when I was working for a small ad agency, we were approached by a woman who was dating a lawyer who was also a lounge singer in his spare time. She wanted us to design a business card and a CD booklet for his new album that he was releasing.

The woman was a self proclaimed “visionary” and she was the “driving force behind the creative” of this man’s album. These are clients you run from screaming, but we were a small struggling agency, so we took the job on.

My coworker comped up both the business card and the booklet and she came in to look at it. I heard the entire conversation while I was sitting in my cubicle, and it was completely ridiculous.

Coworker: Okay, so here’s what I did. I tried to keep a clean look and kept the font consistent through the whole thing, and…

Client: Well, it’s good, but I hate the font.

Coworker: Okay, what would you like it changed to?

Client: You know, like… oh, a hamburger font.

Coworker: A… hamburger  font.

Client: Yes, you know. Make it a hamburger font and it will be completely perfect.

Coworker: Alright… I… I guess I’ll just do that, then.

The client leaves.

Coworker: What the #$@% is a hamburger font?

The rest of the office tried to figure out exactly what she meant. It was then that I yelled over the cubicle wall “Wait… she didn’t mean Hamburger Upright, did she?”

He gave her a few different versions, and he decided to do one that was set in Hamburger Upright, just for the hell of it.

My coworker showed the client the business card with Hamburger Upright in place of the original font and she LOVED it.