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Off-Topic => Chatterbox => Topic started by: Natef on June 25, 2010, 08:09:18 PM

Title: Papyrus
Post by: Natef on June 25, 2010, 08:09:18 PM
What's wrong with the font "Papyrus"? When Jonzu had the font in his signature, people gave him crap about it.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Preytor_4 on June 25, 2010, 08:10:17 PM
Isn't that a type of paper
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: frezal on June 25, 2010, 08:13:17 PM
Papyrus looks like sh** and is way overused. I curse Avatar for making it popular again.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: freeziez on June 25, 2010, 08:16:59 PM
What does Papyrus font look like?
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: frezal on June 25, 2010, 08:19:28 PM
What does Papyrus font look like?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TGH0MCC3L._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: freeziez on June 25, 2010, 08:20:52 PM
thanks.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: freeziez on June 25, 2010, 08:21:07 PM
DP

It does look like crap!
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Serge on June 25, 2010, 08:23:26 PM
Haha oh god Papyrus. I think I dislike it even more than Comic Sans and Arial.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: freeziez on June 25, 2010, 08:27:16 PM
Yeah. And those are sooooooooooo plain!
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Sparkey98 on June 25, 2010, 08:28:01 PM
It can not beat the retardation of Goudy Stout though.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Serge on June 25, 2010, 08:30:43 PM
Kabel Bold FTW.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_F5blIU0mkJA/S03lC2GfYpI/AAAAAAAAAro/bGGpsx1rRZ8/S1600-R/o_rly.jpg)
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: frezal on June 25, 2010, 08:32:19 PM
Haha oh god Papyrus. I think I dislike it even more than Comic Sans and Arial.
Comic Sans has only ever been put to good use by P.Z. Myers.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/)

In case you don't feel like hitting up the biology blag, he uses the font whenever he's quoting an idiot.

Arial is fine when it's being used for plain text. It should be avoided in all logos, though.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Serge on June 25, 2010, 08:35:53 PM
Haha oh god Papyrus. I think I dislike it even more than Comic Sans and Arial.
Comic Sans has only ever been put to good use by P.Z. Myers.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/)
Yes! I wasn't expecting another Pharyngula reader here on GTM.

Arial is fine when it's being used for plain text. It should be avoided in all logos, though.
As a person that sometimes has to deal with web design, this makes me cringe. I once had to deal with a client that handed me a logo which he REQUIRED on his page. It was designed by his 12-yo kid, apparently in MS Word. The font used was Times New Roman D: .
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Noodle on June 25, 2010, 11:00:55 PM
Small fonts ftw.

I can't stand courier new, though.  Courier looks fine in all its retro glory, but courier new looks like sh** that came out of a crusty old typewriter.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: frezal on June 25, 2010, 11:13:32 PM
As a person that sometimes has to deal with web design, this makes me cringe. I once had to deal with a client that handed me a logo which he REQUIRED on his page. It was designed by his 12-yo kid, apparently in MS Word. The font used was Times New Roman D: .
And that is why I decided against a career in graphic design.

Relevant link: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell)
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Naryar on June 26, 2010, 02:15:10 AM
What's wrong with arial ?
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Pwnator on June 26, 2010, 02:16:42 AM
Terrible in media. Arial's made to be used in paperwork anyway. :P
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: frezal on June 26, 2010, 02:20:53 AM
What's wrong with arial ?
It's only acceptable if you hail from the Neutral Planet.

(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090724200457/en.futurama/images/a/a2/225px-Neutral_President.jpg)
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Naryar on June 26, 2010, 02:24:08 AM
What's wrong with arial ?
It's only acceptable if you hail from the Neutral Planet.

(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090724200457/en.futurama/images/a/a2/225px-Neutral_President.jpg)

I am true neutral, does that count ?

And i think Arial Bold was used on the original ragetoon (size 19 or something) so it's very fine for me !
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: frezal on June 26, 2010, 11:15:27 PM
http://www.cracked.com/funny-5647-fonts/ (http://www.cracked.com/funny-5647-fonts/)
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: cephalopod on June 27, 2010, 04:30:57 PM
Papyrus makes me ill. But not as ill as Comic Sans. Times New Roman gets on my nerves too, but I don't mind Arial at all.
Century Gothic, however, particularly in bold size 10/12, is the bomb.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Sparkey98 on June 27, 2010, 04:35:31 PM
Whoever came up with the name of "bleeding cowboy" needs to be hit in the teeth with a master cylinder.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: G.K. on June 27, 2010, 04:36:00 PM
wat
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Sparkey98 on June 27, 2010, 04:37:34 PM
A master cylinder is a big, heavy, hard metal cylinder usually in drive engines.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Noodle on June 27, 2010, 04:40:48 PM
A master cylinder is a big, heavy, hard metal cylinder usually in drive engines.

Why couldn't he have his eyes drilled out with a soldering iron?
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Sparkey98 on June 27, 2010, 04:44:56 PM
Have you ever been hit in the teeth? not fun. Besides, what you said is imoaral, this would just be Corporal Punishment.

WTF your sig, is'n that murdocs gun? I know he has a few....
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Naryar on June 27, 2010, 04:46:44 PM
It's a Thompson... i think they're called like this
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Sparkey98 on June 27, 2010, 04:49:18 PM
I know it's a thompson, murdoc is someone from the Gorrilaz who has guns, and I remember reading somewere he robbed a bank with a thompson. (it's a fantassy band)
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Noodle on June 27, 2010, 05:35:39 PM
Naw she just had it in a case.

Watch the On Melancholy Hill video.
Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Meganerdbomb on June 27, 2010, 10:09:27 PM
(http://upurs.us/image/15448.jpeg) (http://upurs.us/view/15448)

Title: Re: Papyrus
Post by: Noodle on June 27, 2010, 10:26:55 PM
Someone had to eventually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM#ws)