even better: in Times New Bastard basically just TNR, but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif here's its github page: github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard
Papyrus has shops in North America, too, and they have legit the best and funniest cards you'll find. Hallmark is nothing compared to Papyrus. There's one by Chicago that I have been to.
I work for customer services, I once saw a semi official letter sent in on company headed paper written entirely in papyrus, is this an acceptable use?
They explain in the vid, it was a default font (maybe still is?) bundled with Mac OS X, so lazy people searching through the fonts that come with their computer use it when they want something quirky, but also don't want to search the internet for a nice font.
Yeah, but that doesn't make it bad. I looks interesting to me. If it's just because it's overused, I'll never understand it, so you don't have to try too hard to help me with this.
That is precisely the problem: everyone trying to make a vaguely mid-Eastern graphic design finds Papyrus and goes "it looks interesting to me" and runs with it. In that regard, it suffers much of the same misuse as Comic Sans, which everyone trying to make a "fun" graphic design finds and goes "it looks fun to me" and runs with it. Also, as Graham touched on in this video, the bigger misuse is when people misuse it as a body font, which it was never designed for. The enlarged capital letters (extending both above the top and below the bottom of the standard line margins) were designed for titles, not paragraphs. At most, it's best used sparingly for a one or two word title for an appropriately themed business (e.g. PAPYRUS, the mid-to-high quality stationary and greeting cards store inspired by original papyrus prints), but not for sub-titles or body. Also, the general design of the typeface is supposed to look fluid and (to borrow a Japanese expression) wabi-sabi, which doesn't work when you have repeated letters that make it obvious that it is a uniform typeface. Wabi-sabi refers to an aesthetic that can crudely translate to "the beauty in imperfection". For example, if you look at a traditional hand-crafted Japanese tea cup versus an Ikea tea cup, there is an inherent atristry about the non-uniformity of the Japanese tea cup with it's various lumps and indents. Likewise, Papyrus is designed to appear traditional and hand-crafted with the iconic notches and blots in the letters (being inspired by and modeled on ancient Egyptian papyrus reed prints). However, if used inappropriately/excessively, it begins to show it's mass-produced rigid nature like the Ikea cup. For example, at around 3:30, we see a sign for "Butterflies", but the double-T shows the uniformity of the typeface.
Font is font. As long as I can read it I don't care. That includes Comic sans. But I have a learning disorder that makes it hard to read so I can't read lol cats or other odd spelled things those piss me off more then the font.
