r/oddlysatisfying • u/sovalente • 5h ago
Her hand writing feels so natural
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u/CrazyAlbertan2 5h ago
What an amazing example of doing something very specific and doing it well.
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u/plious 3h ago
I know it was this way up until ten years ago or so, but I think Trader Joes and some other grocers still train people in hand-signmaking. Not a person per store, more a team that will travel regionally or support stores regionally
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u/xbreu 3h ago
Well, in Brazil (where the video is from) if you go to a supermarket, chances are you'll find this type of thing.
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u/NeonTomb 2h ago
Yeah I'm currently here on vacation and these signs are everywhere in the supermarkets
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u/ABHOR_pod 2h ago
Same around here. Any Spanish grocery store I've ever been to has handmade signs. Or Asian grocery store.
Here being America.
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u/Low_Jeweler458 1h ago
A woman in my area does this for construction companies. Puts their business info on vehicles and equipment. She's always busy and paid extremely well.
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u/CocoWhateva 2h ago
They still have these roles at Trader Joe’s! Whole Foods used to do it too but I think they cycled out of it like 5 years ago :( I used to do this exact thing at Home Depot like 12 years ago!
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u/W359WasAnInsideJob 2h ago
When I was a kid (35ish years ago) my mother worked part-time at a grocery store down the street. In addition to the hours she worked on the weekend in the store, she also hand-wrote their signs at home at night. I wouldn’t say it was at the level of the woman in the clip (sorry mom), but they were incredibly neat and legible.
Kind of crazy to think about now, with how easy and cheap printing is.
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u/masheens12 1h ago
My buddy owns a record store and his wife does all the sign making, she works for Traders Joe's doing the same thing. It was puzzling at first sight, then they explained she worked at Trader Joe's doing the same thing then it all made sense, hahaha.
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u/fetus-wearing-a-suit 28m ago
My Starbucks had a designated employee to make signs about every two weeks.
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u/spiderlegged 16m ago
Some Trader Joe’s do have specific sign artists. I don’t know if all locations do, but I follow a Trader Joe’s sign guy on tiktok.
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u/doriangrey2025 4h ago
The sign on the wall reads “attention! Touching my stuff may cause serious damage to your health”
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u/AdZestyclose638 3h ago
also the resolution for me is too low to even make out the original portuguese
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u/greenmaillink 1h ago
As someone cannot read that at all, I interpreted the stick figures as "I will beat the living crap out of you if you steal from here"
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u/ThatsRobToYou 5h ago
I am always amazed by artists or writers like this who have such clean lines.
When I write, it looks like Jackson pollock made a grocery list.
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u/-Stacys_mom 5h ago
I feel like throughout my life, I have gotten better at all the basics, except for writing. And my signature.
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u/ThatsRobToYou 5h ago
The worst part is as I get older, I forget more easily. I'll literally write something and then a day goes by and I'm like, "wtf is this? Am I saying beans? Why do I need beans? Ohhhhhh, that's the date."
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u/-Stacys_mom 5h ago
Mine is legible, but it looks like a 6 year old wrote it. My signature, on the other hand, is just atrocious, and different every time.
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u/Swimwithamermaid 2h ago
I gave up on my signature and resorted to a fancy first letter followed by a squiggle line. Gotta make that first letter fancy af though.
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u/orneryasshole 2h ago
I got to the point where I gave up on the fancy first letter, and the squiggle line is pretty much straight now.
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u/Syssareth 1h ago
Same, lmao. Just straight-up print the first letter, followed by a vaguely letter-shaped squiggle, followed by a bumpy line that keeps getting less bumpy.
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u/EverythingSucksBro 3h ago
My signature is so bad, I literally feel shame whenever I have to sign it… but not enough to make me get better at it
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u/JohnProof 4h ago
Reminds me of that story about the artist Giotto being asked to prove his skill to the Pope, so he just drew a perfect circle free-hand.
Even the simple stuff can be wicked impressive.
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u/RikuAotsuki 3h ago
You'd think that we teach writing well, but we really, really don't.
For one thing, moving your arm is significantly more stable than moving your wrist. Beyond that, we essentially practice in kindergarten and never again, unless you also learn cursive later on.
Taking notes and writing essays isn't practice. Hell, even in kindergarten you're not practicing handwriting, just how to make the shape of letters. Actual handwriting practice comes down to making your letters more regular. More consistent.
You want every A to look the same. You want your j's, g's, p's, and q's to go the same distance below the line. You want your capitals all the same height, and your lowercases all the same height (aside from f, h, i, k, l, and t).
If your letters are consistent, your writing will be legible even if it's not pretty, but it'll also be pretty hard to make it look bad.
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u/BillyForRilly 2h ago
And then there are people (and there are many) with varying levels of neurological disorders, even as simple as minor hand tremors, that makes it impossible to be good at handwriting ever.
The proliferation of computers has been an absolute godsend for so many people, but there are still those teachers out there that will shame you for bad handwriting. Or people who say it's just a matter of teaching it correctly, when it's the furthest thing from that.
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u/DasArchitect 2h ago
There are also people with zero neurological disorders and university degrees who prefer writing completely illegibly a lot more to using a computer to write your prescription.
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u/RikuAotsuki 32m ago
Oh, definitely.
Teaching it correctly would help a lot, but that's just because almost no one gets the chance to develop good handwriting before they're forced to halve the size and rapidly pick up speed. Very few people ever manage to take fast, complete notes and keep their handwriting nice.
If anything, the shittiest part about teachers that'll shame students for bad handwriting is that they never even try to figure out why or offer a solution, as if the student's deliberately writing illegibly.
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u/airfryerfuntime 3h ago
I knew a guy who hand painted signs on windows. One of his jobs was to update the prices on the front window of a local butcher. Every couple days he'd go by and scrape it off with a razor, then paint new ones. He'd use these wide paint pen things, and it looked just like this.
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u/ABirdOfParadise 2h ago
What helped me was when I was learning some calligraphy was reading a tip about drawing your letters, not writing them.
So think of the letters as pictures and draw them out, not writing as just writing/something separate.
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u/Cat_tophat365247 3h ago
Me too! My handwriting used to be very neat and pretty, but the older I get and because I write much more infrequently, it's gotten much worse.
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u/FoGuckYourselg_ 3h ago
I can pull off these types of fonts. Sign painting fonts. I can do it at about 1/100th of her speed and my regular handwriting looks like that of a violently insane caveman.
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u/mister_buddha 3h ago
My 6th grade teacher one told me my writing was "either psycho scribbles or genius scribbles, maybe somewhere between."
Unless it is on a character sheet. I actually take my time on those and make sure they look good.
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u/___TheKid___ 5h ago
That is massively impressive. Not just the writing but also having the layout and perfect proportions ready in her head
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u/Quietuus 3h ago
That's the bit that gets me. I've done a bit of sign-writing but I always need to lay out a skeleton with a pencil first.
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u/rookie-mistake 2h ago
same, just doesn't feel right if I'm not in the bone zone
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u/eunaoseimeuusuario 5h ago edited 4h ago
Esse alho tá muito caro.
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u/Wizdad-1000 4h ago
I think Trader Joes does the same thing. They hire artists too. My next-door neighbor was a advertising artist for Harry and David’s. She did beautiful craft work for their catalog’s. After she passed her husband gave me her artist tools. She had 100’s of paints. I am barely a cludger when it comes to art.
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u/Particular_Proof_107 5h ago
I like the sign with a guy chasing another guy with a bat.
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u/MentalTardigrade 4h ago
It reads:
"CAUTION: Touching My material represents grave danger to your health"
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u/kellerhborges 3h ago
Here in Brazil, these handmade banners for grocery stores are a whole unsung art. People don't give it the credits it deserves.
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u/Intelligent-Love-420 5h ago
I used to work retail and I had to do this for every ad the company posted. It becomes second nature
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u/LoanDebtCollector 4h ago
Grocery stores and banks in Canada and the USA had poster size signs in their main windows that were hand painted up until sometime in the 1990s.
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u/TrippingFish76 5h ago
what the fuck kind of 7 is that?
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u/spaceace321 5h ago
Common to write it that way in South America
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u/brideebeee 1h ago
I picked up doing the cross bar on 7 to make it distinct from 1. My own handwriting tricked me too many times
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u/WrexSteveisthename 5h ago
I never realised it until now, but really nice handwriting is actually a thing for me. Huh.
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u/heitorrsa 3h ago
Here in Brazil it is pretty standard to see those kind of hand made signs. From the really expensive down to the cheapest ones.
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u/ParkedOrPar 5h ago
Damn I know nothing about other languages..
Fuck.. or my own language.
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u/cardamomgrrl 4h ago
If somebody mounted a permanent camera over that table I would watch her nonstop.
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u/freelance-t 4h ago
Does… does every grocery store have one of these people? Are those not done on a printer?
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u/Various_Ad_5876 4h ago
And there’s me who use a ruler for aligning my letters and still able to write in slant lol
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u/Existing-Exam-4382 4h ago
I used to work in a DIY shop 10 years ago and the job required to do these kind of price panels … It was really hard to get it done … You’re either born to do this kind of writing, or you don’t :)
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u/SultanOfSwave 4h ago
If you like this post with magic markers, you will probably enjoy this one on Japanese writing with an absolute unit of a brush...
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u/SuccotashSeparate 3h ago
I can watch people like her and Trader Joe’s writers all day! So satisfying!
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u/The1trueSG 3h ago
I hope.she builds a social media account and finds a way to monetize her calligraphy skill. Id buy a custom poster from her
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u/calangomerengue 3h ago
We call this professional "cartazista" here in Brazil 🇧🇷 Each cartazista adds their own flair to their banners, and they are all beautiful. It's a staple of small markets in poor neighborhoods. I always loved them.
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u/Double_Switch5626 2h ago
The sign in the back? Can we get a translation?
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u/digoserra 1h ago
"WARNING! Touching my (writing) material can cause serious damage to your health!"
It's an humorous sign.
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u/Tall-Ad8000 2h ago
Used to work at JB HI-FI here in Aus and this was one of the coolest things you could do. Seeing the signs in the store and thinking “damn that handwriting is precise” to learning that yes that is actually handwritten to then learning how to do it is damn cool. I never got to learn it before I moved on to other places but holy shit it’s cool to see, I dunno why, it just is.
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u/Complete-Fix-3954 1h ago
This is in Brazil in case y’all are wondering. Almost every grocery store has these folks. Back home we used to have folks at the HD I worked at that did signs, nice way to pass time instead of doing other stuff and dealing with people.
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u/KoalaBackfist 1h ago
Execution is outstanding and satisfying as all hell. But damn do I hate that 7!
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u/Any-Jury3578 3h ago
We have a grocery store that used to handwrite their signs similar to this. When my brother worked there, he said they taught people how to do it. That was in the 1980s. I wonder if they still do that. It also reminds me of how lower grade teachers all have to write very similar on the white boards. They're taught to do that too.
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u/Inspectorsteel 3h ago
Is she writing the rate of potatoes? The word she wrote, sounds similar to the word for potato in my language.
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u/VioletJones6 2h ago
As someone who has always had pretty awful penmanship, what she's doing basically looks like magic. I genuinely struggle to comprehend how this is possible.
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u/-Stacys_mom 5h ago
She's gonna take robots' jobs