I ♥ Papyrus

fake police badge?

2010-01-22T17:12:00.001-05:00

How would you know? Click here to see what reddit has to say.

Charities that support the Haiti relief effort ♥ Papyrus

2010-01-20T09:51:00.003-05:00

Bryan writes:

Even in the midst of tragedy we can (measuredly) bemoan the bland ineffectiveness of Papyrus (Check out that horrible cap-A - http://www.jubileeusa.org/index.php). But rusticated breaking chains are still broken chains. And _that_ is effective. Good luck to Jubilee's efforts that may benefit Haiti.

He continues:

Fun blog. Keep it up! Thought you may get some good talk about Papyrus while keeping the flames stoked for Haitian relief.

Cheers,
Bryan

P.S. I learned about Jubilee by way of ONE who is keeping a nice running summary of efforts (and worthy charity/NFP links) at: http://bit.ly/5MkMj4

Well thanks so much to Bryan! What a nice email, and seriously, if you haven't donated yet, try to do so. Even if it's a dollar, we're talking about one of the poorest parts of the world and recovering is going to require a lot of time and money.

There's definitely Papyrus in there

2010-01-06T15:41:00.002-05:00

Can you guess who's behind them kitty-like eyes?!

An Open Letter to James Cameron From Papyrus

2010-01-05T10:54:00.004-05:00

You have to read this open letter to James Cameron written in the voice of Papyrus. There are even screenshots of the subtitles and the title card. Click here to see it.

I wonder if anyone on the moviemaking team will come out to address the font choice, as it is clear it has a lot of people scratching their heads/ass/eyes (out).

is that bellydance place using the Avatar font?

2010-01-05T10:31:00.003-05:00

No. They are using Papyrus.

Just like James Cameron did in the movie he spent $500 dollars making. Maybe they ran out of money right as they went to buy the license for another font.

That bellydance place was sent to me as a coupon from groupon.com.

An Avatar + Papyrus Hootnanny

2009-12-22T09:36:00.004-05:00

So way back in August, I wrote this when the trailer was released. Of course now, the movie is out and a lot of people are going bananas over the use of Papyrus, the font recommended by 4 out of 5 people who don't know a damn thing about design or typography.

Gizmodo had this. In that, they share some of the twitter buzz and reveal that the subtitles are all in Papyrus as well.

Some great things to come out of the original post's comments however were this mockup of a French Avatar poster using Comic Sans (might as well right?):

Even better, from the comments, Tim Girvin, a man who had worked with James Cameron wrote:

...I’d heard about Avatar and seen some of the opening treatments of the concept of its visual identity. Early renderings and pre-marketing show reels expressed this in a font that to my thinking failed to appropriately reach to the innovation potential of his visioning. I wrote him — a series of letters — with ideas and pleas for involvement.

Girvin's post is lengthy and very interesting so I encourage you to read the whole thing.

I've reached out to Chris Costello, who I've interviewed in the past, to find out whether he knew anything about Papyrus being the defining typeface of one of the biggest blockbusters of the decade.

For now, it's still all the RAGE on twitter.

Papyrus overload

2009-12-10T14:03:00.005-05:00

Rob is on the job! He sent in some new stuff.

hey!

I've noticed the overuse of papyrus for probably over 2 years, about a year ago i started vocalizing about it.

so anyways, we had a Halloween party this year and I made the banner with our favorite font! completely forgot about it, as a joke. and as expected, no one really understood the joke. it fit right in!

He goes on:

the wolf run one is from the tropicana resort in atlantic city, i was there this weekend and saw this very high production value papyrus sighting

also, i started my own blog http://latfpapyrus.blogspot.com , because the shots in my cellphone were starting to stack up.

2 minutes after creating the blog, my friend pointed me to your blog and I realized you had already done a lot of work! so as long asyou don't mind me bothering you with submissions, I'll keep sending them your way!

thanks!
- Rob

I don't mind at all and the fact you felt compelled to explore the overuse of Papyrus as well is a testament to how bad/fantastic this epidemic truly is. The news is all over the economy, swineflu, the gays, etc, but do they ever once alert us to the dangers of Papyrus abuse?!

It's a conspiracy dammit.

Rhythm & Jews

2009-12-07T11:09:00.002-05:00

seriously...

This was sent in by Rob who concurs, "religion loves papyrus!"

Thanks for sending, Rob. I love the "It's a MITZVAH... at a BAR". Very clever, Papyrus lovers.

The Canadian Humane Society ♥'s puppies and kitties and Papyrus

2009-12-03T11:21:00.003-05:00

This one comes from Chaz:

So the design there is actually not bad... but but it was clearly incomplete before they slapped that Pap on it.

Thanks for sharing!

religion Papyrus from here to eternity

2009-12-02T10:28:00.002-05:00

At this point, it's pretty clear that religion is looking to corner the Papyrus market. I'm cool with that. Today, a guy here in the office said that I look like Jesus, which I guess isn't that bad since Jesus always looked pretty ripped (emaciated). I told this guy, who is a black guy, Jesus was black. He agreed saying, "the version you always see though." So I look like the white version of black Jesus. Anyway, in searching for reference for that claim, I found this site:

And to get an idea as to what that comparison shows:

Just putting that together felt sacrilegious.

Zulu Sport ♥s Papyrus

2009-12-01T14:30:00.004-05:00

I was like, totally shopping one day and forrill grrrl, I like, totally saw this sign.

I was shopping. For a hat. They guy who was running the booth thought I really liked the bracelets until I explained I was taking a picture of the font. At that point, I think he was thinking about calling the police. He probably concluded that anyone lame enough to snap pictures of fonts is dangerous only if dangerous means lame and faggoty.

Halloween '09 - no Papyrus

2009-11-02T12:56:00.002-05:00

Brandon and I went as the Ace and Gary, from the Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoons on SNL. It was a hit out in East Atlanta where we spent most of Halloween night.

I'm on the left, Brandon is on the right. Here's a video with maybe every episode in it:

iheartpapyrus ♥s failblog

2009-10-20T12:53:00.003-05:00

If you haven't seen failblog, DO. It's awesome. Also, they posted this:

Beyond the obvious questions like "is that real?" and "how much does it cost?", the question might be, at no point during the start-up process for this particular business (incorporating, registering with appropriate government entities, getting a giant "HAND JOB" sign made and paid for) was anyone able to suggest an alternative name? I mean, clearly, we know from experience, Papyrus needs to be a part of every creative endeavor (looking at you James Cameron). But sexual euphemism...

bet it'll be the talk of the town.

religion still ♥s Papyrus

2009-10-18T17:22:00.005-05:00

After the work of the great masters during the Renaissance, almost everything inspired by Christianity has been insipid, boring, and a total waste of everyone's fucking time. Don't believe me? Look at this pile of trash:

That's "One Nation Under God," by contemporary artist Jon McNaughton. He's an asshole. I could elabporate but this guy has done a pretty decent job.

Anyway, the point is, Jesus evidently wants the people He inspires to be mediocre at best. AND Papyrus is all over this video. Don't really watch it. Seriously. The people who made it probably think it's hilarious, and religious baffoon's with no sense of humor (most of them) probably love it. But I assure you it sucks:

rush limbaugh's foofall dreams

2009-10-14T18:34:00.003-05:00

I sure hope Rush gets to buy those St. Louis Rams. He already picked out new uniforms!

passive aggression ♥s Papyrus

2009-10-13T10:54:00.004-05:00

From a pretty hilarious group of signs in the vain of passiveaggressivenotes.com, came this gem:

No need for punctuation I guess when the situation could not be made any clearer.

The Whole Village ♥'s Papyrus

2009-09-24T10:03:00.003-05:00

From Tone:

I was looking for a font that went well with Papyrus for my site when I came across your blog and laughed. I didn't think Papyrus was really that bad, then I started noticing it all over the place. My whole site is using Papyrus including my logo and the books I print, talk about overload. I just thought the font matched with what I was trying to say. But you are right, we use Papyrus as a species too much. I need to ween myself off of this font slowly, is there a 12 step program you know of? Maybe that's a post you can make on your page "Too much Papyrus? Here are the 12 font steps to decrease your addiction". Nice. I have attached a few photos, not for "shameless self promotion" but so you could see what I mean. I hope all is well with you, take care.

Here's a shot of the site, and you can visit it to see for yourself.

Thanks for sending Tone!

close to the perfect place for papyrus

2009-09-01T12:53:00.004-05:00

The only thing that would have made this a more perfect place, is if it were on the INSIDE:

Not only is it Papyrus, but they scaled the width down too just so it's even more unreadable. This is a lesson in poor branding. Brand yourself in a font EVERY DAMN NOVICE USES (lookin at you James Cameron) and then make it hard to read your contact information, and THen, THEY uglify a perfectly nice looking dumpster.

Oh, and it's on their website too.

c'mon James Cameron, you can afford to splurge on a font

2009-08-20T11:15:00.013-05:00

So Avatar.

Guess what?! As MikeO brought to my attention, it is covered in Papyrus.

Could this be a great usage of Papyrus, or the greatest usage of Papyrus? I mean, he might as well have used Comic Sans. Seriously dude, you're like, a bajillionare, you can afford a suite of fonts. Maybe he's editing it in iMovie. I don't know. I just know whoever designed this trailer is either laughing hysterically about this, or a day away from the unemployment office. Maybe both.

Seriously!

I think I prefer the fan-made one:

Oh and thanks MikeO

Bombadil Publishing ♥'s Papyrus

2009-08-16T16:22:00.006-05:00

John was kind (and brave) enough to send (and admit to) this com[pany's card and marketing.

He writes:

This would be an act of shameless self promotion if we had chosen papyrus for this very reason. Of course we didn't, so it isn't.

:-D

It's all over the site too!

Thanks for sending John! And hot diddly doo! I can upload images again!

low fat bastard

2009-08-04T19:52:00.002-05:00

Here's an old one I never put up... Saw it at Sevananda in Atlanta.

unfunny comics and indian princesses

2009-07-12T17:11:00.004-05:00

got a great email from Bill who writes:

OK, so I happened upon your blog by what wonderful chance I can't even recall, but have been really enjoying reading your archive.

Ahh, yes... A FireFox history search indicates it was after reading http://www.xkcd.com/590/ that I Googled "Papyrus Font" and the rest (of the hours I am being paid to "work" at the office) is history.

Anyway, I love your links to things like the Gallon of Milk on Amazon, and I was doing another random search and came across this little gem:

http://prairie.algonquinlonghouse.org/about.htm

Someone, apparently, stole their kerning. I am guessing that they didn't *pay* someone for that header graphic. It is like a color and font "cage match" where everyone lost.

Regards,

Bill from HB

Thanks so much Bill!

To me, XKCD is maybe the most unfunny, poorly drawn, suckfests on the web but that guy there is certainly topical if nothing else. The indian princesses page is awesome in its use of papyrus with maybe one of the worst logos ever shat.

Thanks again for the kind words and sending this along.

Ghost Town ♥'s Papyrus

2009-06-15T10:07:00.003-05:00

There are a couple scenes where Bertram is at Gwen's mummy thing and of course, the promotional material is designed with Papyrus.

It is like, an Egyptian mummy. Papyrus makes a lot of sense there since it's always awesome and makes a lot of sense to use anytime, all the time, now and forever.

Movie was actually kind of fun too.

flickr mail? really?

2009-06-03T11:15:00.003-05:00

I wouldn't have thought to check but I am glad I did. Mike sent a link (via flickr mail) to this comic.

Thanks Mike!

now that I can post again, I can share submissions again

2009-05-17T19:13:00.003-05:00

and Erik writes:

Heres some AMAZING Papyrus!
in fact.. The whole site is drowning in it!

http://www.piggys.com

Take care

See, now why use decorative fonts for accents when you can use it everywhere?!