By now, we’ve all seen the replays and read the analysis, breaking down how Warren Beatty could have gotten the wrong envelope for Best Picture. But something else could’ve prevented the biggest screw-up in Oscar history. If the card inside the envelope were clearer—if it had proper typography and a logical information hierarchy, rather than a wall of monotonous text—Beatty (or any person) would have caught the mistake.
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