15+ Signs that caught people's attention for bizarre reasons: 'Don't cheer up, be a Grinch'

These signs are more confusing than helpful… That's the opposite of what a sign is supposed to do!

At their very core, signs are supposed to direct people somewhere, or explain something to them.They can be very straightforward, like signs that just advertise a price, or they can include long sentences that half the people walking by won't even read. That's all well and good, but sometimes people overthink these signs and things get complicated! For whatever reason, folks will take a "graphic design is my passion" approach to their creations, making the signs all but illegible. A lot of these designers will take words that are normally read from left to right, and place them from top to bottom, creating beautiful poems and bewildering directions at the same time. That's what happens when you overthink things! 

Just check out a bunch of these silly and amusing signs below, and just try to figure out what they mean. The classic "no added apple sugar cake" will always confuse people due to the way it's written out, making people question if there's no sugar or no apples in this cake. And someone tried to make a sign on a traffic barrier that legitimately takes a few minutes to figure out… check it out below and see if you can figure out what these sign designers were trying to say. 

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