Papyrus is pretty and that is likely its downfall. If you're a Thai restaurant or a Rakki (sp) healing center, papyrus is probably appropriate for the sign outside of your establishment. Where it causes designers to collapse into weeping puddles is when it's used as body text for lost dog advertisements or Christmas Party invitations. This is because the personal computer gave type design to "the masses" and instead of making everybody into designers, it just make lots of people think they didn't have to hire a designer anymore because they have MS Word and all these fonts.... Whereas you can pretty much get away with using Helvetica anywhere and the worst people will say about you is that you're unimaginative, Papyrus is so frequently used wrong that it's nearly impossible to use right anymore because it comes with the "Oh god! Papyrus!" baggage.
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Date: 2009-01-03 05:02 pm (UTC)