This is the creator of Comic Sans

Hmm…I’m thinking that the over use of Papyrus didn’t occur until much later when WYSIWYG desktop and web publishing became a thing for the masses. In the 80’s you actually had to work to use specific fonts, including using Letraset rub-off transfers or cut outs - they weren’t something that came with your computer or a Word Processor.

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I’ve used Papyrus several times on Christian music album covers, always specifically by request of the artist. “Do whatever design you want but make sure you use this wonderful font I saw on my church program cover!”

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Is it bad my immediate attention was drawn to ‘action zone’ being at crotch level on those pants?

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God, yes. Please, please stop with using versals and swash caps as all caps!!!

Though I do have one pet peeve further than that. Don’t randomly mix black letter minuscule and majuscule, ala Midas Mufflers :scream:

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I wonder if they’ll use Comic Sans on his tombstone.

Actually, I wouldn’t mind it on my own tombstone. Because I’ll be dead.

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Just a quick reminder:

Don’t use horrible fonts. Think of the bunnies.

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There are other perfectly fine fonts that have been killed by overuse. Papyrus, for example.

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I will always hate comic sans more than i hate hitler.

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But, maybe, less than you hate Trump, given that “hitler” is dead?

That was quite some ninja editing there heh.

I’m paraphrasing another quote and being ever so slightly melodramatic.

There’s nothing i hate more than drumpf!

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Indeed! Though I don’t do major ninja edits if people have already responded to or liked the post. I would have deleted it when I thought better of the post I accidentally posted prematurely, but then you get the 24 hour deleted post of shame… :grimacing:

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No, that’s kind of the point.

presenting…

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I prefer this version that keeps the curly tail to the y". Makes for a better mashup. Too bad the person who created this version didn’t actually make a full font to go with the mash up. (There is a Comic Papyrus font out there, but IMO it doesn’t use enough of the distinctive Papyrus swashes to really make for a cool/awful mash up. It’s really just a grunged Comic Sans and not a true Comic Papyrus.)

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Interview with the Creator of Papyrus.

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Papyrus is a competently executed font ruined by overuse. Comic Sans is a bad font. It looks like it was written with a mouse in MS Paint. Compare it to any professional comic letterer’s work. Hell, Dilbert has better lettering than that.

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Vsauce: A Defense of Comic Sans

This seems topically appropriate to post.

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Well, there is one appropriate use of Comic Sans: Trump Tweets.

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