Baseball’s Most Problematic Lettering Font

Why are the player names on the Mariners’ navy jerseys such a mess?

On May 16, 2012, someone at the design firm GD Squared was watching a Seattle Mariners game on TV and noticed that the lettering on the back of pitcher Charlie Furbush’s jersey didn’t look quite right. The bad news was that the spacing between some of the letters looked a bit off; the worse news was that the spacing glitch made Furbush’s name read like …