AI has ruined Instrument Serif, em dashes, purple gradients and more, designers complain
yuwen_lu_ · x · 2026-10-05
A viral post laments that AI-generated content has "ruined" a whole set of design tropes: Instrument Serif, em dashes, purple, gradient text, eyebrow captions, mono type captions, two-column hero sections, and numbered lists — sparking discussion about design homogenization in the AI era.
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