Papyrus (font)

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I am a glass-blowing artist and in my 'Hidden Worlds' show, I hand engraved scenes which had hidden worlds of animals in the tree branches. I tried several different fonts but thought this font tied the material together and gave me the feeling I was hoping for.
—Lisa Tate[1]

The Papyrus typeface is used by New Agers as a secret sign to identify each other, much as gays use rainbows and nurseries use Comic Sans.

Papyrus is popular with the New Age movement because it provides a feeling of natural creation and hand-crafting, mass produced by computer in a sterile environment. It is also frequently found on Christian rock CDs and suburban church notices,[2] to give that proper feeling of being spiritual, yet safe.

It was famously used for the subtitles in Avatar, proving the cosmic oneness of blue-skinned cat babes with athletic[3] breasts and tails, as well as the name of the spaceship Serenity (in the movie of the same name), which was a sequel to the cult classic TV show Firefly.

Font snobs hold it in even lower general esteem than Comic Sans. We've all had business memos in Comic Sans, but only a terminal crystal-hugger would request your overdue TPS reports using Papyrus. Comic Sans says "dumb"; Papyrus says "space cadet."

The typeface was created by graphic designer Chris Costello for Letraset in 1982. He is very sorry.[1]

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