I just want to take a random minute here to rant about something that is so stupid and annoying, I don’t know why anybody does it.
UPSIDE-DOWN CD SPINES!
Come on, designers? WHY?!?!?
The spine needs to read from the top down—like a book. So when it lays flat—or in a box of inventory—it’s right-side up.
Of course we can just flip these upside-down in our boxes, but then they’re backwards.
I don’t get it.
I seem to remember some old GNP Cresendo and CAM titles being this way.
Shame!
In France and Germany, all book spines are upside down (from an Anglophone perspective) as a rule.
Yes...this was a favourite thing of GNP's to do...and I'm stuffed if I can work out why. 2 possible solutions were 1) simply a graphic design mistake, where someone didn't pay attention OR 2) was /is this a "European" style thing? Not sure why I think this...MAYBE I read it somewhere years ago or I just made it up!!! Whatever the reason....BLOODY ANNOYING!!!
This drives me insane.
I don't typically have an issue with single discs, but my pet peeve is inverted spine text on quad cases. The boutique labels tend to print different text on all four spines but the pairs are typically inverted from each other.
That is annoying. Turning the right way round is off-putting when you take it out and the front cover is upside down... It ruins the layout. Not really a peeve, but a fear... sometimes I worry I'll break a disc freeing it from the case's teeth. Especially if it's a 2-CD set.