So here’s some unambiguous warning sings that you’re well on the way to becoming a design nerd or that you already work as a graphic designer:

1. You can spot bad typography from 100 meters away.
2. You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes.
3. You are completely immune to subliminal advertising.
4. You look upon a well-designed project with either: sympathy OR extreme jealousy.
5. Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse.
6. You practically take caffeine intravenously.
7. You have an appreciation for everything unique.
8. You’ve been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit. You find yourself overcome by Deathlust.
9. You buy a CD or DVD only for the artwork.
10. You look at the clock and see it’s about midnight and think “I’ll go to bed now”… and you actually go to bed at about 2-3 am.
11. Seing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure.
12. You have a thing for chairs. You don’t know why.
13. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
14. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
15. You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
16. The hottest dream you ever had was “Trace contour… Find Edges… Pinch… Extrude… Smudge Stick… Motion Blur…. Sprayed Strokes…”
17. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
18. Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash.
19. You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because “it’s the only one where the lower-case g is just right…”
20. Looking at a menu makes you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!”
21. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
22. When your significant other/ friends have threatened to never speak to you again if you point out one more font to them.
23. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
24. You actually understand this post and pass it on to your friends.