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.

Papyrus font hate