Size really matters: AEC takes Craig Kelly to court over fine print on election ads

The Australian Electoral Commission has taken Craig Kelly to court over the font size used for authorisation on his UAP election ads in 2022. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

“I’m reasonably good with different fonts,” the failed United Australia Party candidate, Craig Kelly, told the federal court on Monday.

“But that had a special name I can’t recall,” he said, when asked to name the typeface used on the unmissable black and yellow advertisements his party used at the 2022 election.