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Charities that support the Haiti relief effort ♥ Papyrus

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

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

An Open Letter to James Cameron From Papyrus

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?

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

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

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

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.