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.
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| —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]
[edit] External links
- Papyrus Watch
- I ♥ Papyrus
- The Wikipedia talk page is hilarious. (Yeah, xkcd is all they have to say about Papyrus.[4])
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 F is for font: Investigating Boise's love affair with the prolific Papyrus (Travis Estvold, Boise Weekly, 2008-06-25)
- ↑ Pentecostal ones use Comic Sans.
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=124320235
- ↑ The xkcd comic in question