![]() And while I have downloaded a dedicated "comic font," I still use Comic Sans for a character personifying Comics, but I do so as a point of mockery more than anything else. My comics are usually about media issues so I usually pick ones closely tied to or evocative of the media in question (Impact for Internet, for instance). Personally, I've turned to using the "foreign-looking font" to evoke some of the periods in my own comics, especially when portraying a decidedly noncontemporary setting or culture that did not at any point in time use Roman writing and in the absence of actual foreign-evocative faux writing font. An analogous feeling would be when people hate on Buzzfeed for misusing literally in the hyperbolic figurative sense, which while valid is against common understanding of the word being "as is." It's not wrong, but it's used in the wrong sense so many times it's hard to take it seriously. Font misuse is a common issue, hence the hate. From a design perspective, fonts convey a lot about the gravitas of an article and there are situations when an exotic-looking font may be out of place in an attempt to look cool (a common beginner mistake I frequently found this in YouTube videos that were clearly made with moviemaker). You can no longer comment on this thread as it was closed due to noĪs the good people below have said, much of the hate surrounding Papyrus and Comic Sans comes from misuse. If you're going to critique a font, aim for its inherent aesthetics than whether or not it's trendy today.Ĭriticizing fonts just because you think they're currently overused is currently overdone. ![]() It's easier to read when scaled up big, so it works better for headlines or titles than whole paragraphs of text. ![]() Even if the Font Fascists had their way and stuffed Papyrus into internment, at some future date someone is going to break it free and bring it back to fresh air.Īll that said, I admit the standard Papyrus lettering could put on some weight. But not only is overuse a subjective criterion, it's dependent on a chronologically specific trend, so complaints about it will become dated like pop-culture references in cartoons. I myself am not so enthralled with bland ol' Times New Roman. It's all well and good to suggest alternative fonts that could use more exposure, or even to grow tired of certain fonts' ubiquity in the media. In general I don't place much credence on claims that certain fonts are invariably off-limits just because they're "overused", at least no more than I would gripes about storytelling cliches or tropes. I do believe Tempus Sans ITC can pull of a nicely "tribal" aesthetic though.) ( There actually is a font called "African" out there, but I say it looks much more, well, Mesozoic. I can understand people thinking Papyrus looks out of place for designs not evoking Egypt or any other African country, but when you do want to evoke that continent, must it still be taboo? At least it's got a distinct aesthetic flavor, which is more than I'll say for Comic Sans. Not only did its design mimic Egyptian handwriting, but it's even named after the Egyptians' native paper surrogate. The thing was, Papyrus was simply the intuitive choice of font for those particular comics, as least as far as fonts commonly built into word processors went. Years ago, I used Papyrus as a font for a few simple comic strips set in ancient Egypt, and people on a certain forum told me it was an "overused" font. This is the article that prompted today's Pilcherian Complaint:Įmotionally Scar Your Typophile Friends With Comic Papyrusĭoes anyone else think the whole stigma against Papyrus font is overblown? There are even guys out there whose idea of a life is creating whole blogs just to whine about it.
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