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420 Design's Soapbox - A design blog for the average personhttp://fourtwentydesign.com/blog [420 Design's Soapbox - A design blog for the average person] Over a year ago (July 2005), I wrote an article on why you shouldn’t use Papyrus. To this day, it is the one article on this entire blog that gets the most reading.

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Dan and Angi have something to say: Of course, Comic Sans is number one since it is overused in the most inappropriate of circumstances. As Sean Gleeson* has pointed out in the past, there’s nothing wrong with Comic Sans per se. (via Cosmos)

http://www.accordancebible.com/blog  Accordance Blog: It's much more dramatic than the others, and looks much more like what you'll get in a History Channel documentary. Oh, by the way, the History Channel used therecently maligned Papyrus font on its maps, one of the looks I recommended for Accordance maps. (via Cosmos)

Fire Someone Today: They did not ask the graphic designer to show them how to use the logo on signage, though. Every time I drive past their large, expensive, backlit, ugly sign, I think to myself that this bank doesn’t know what it is doing. (via Cosmos)

I (HEART) Papyrus: Submissions would make this site so frickin' sweet. Please, if you have any shots of Papyrus or links to sites with it that you can share, feel free to email images or links to me. (via Cosmos)

http://superweak.wordpress.com [Superweak.wordpress.com] Charm &c.: (or worse, “minor trans-Neptunian icy planetoid“) suggest that I’m not alone. The price we pay to have a halfway decent, physically-meaningful defintion which includes Pluto is that there are certainly lots of undiscovered objects in the solar system which meet it.

http://vccgraphics.wordpress.com [Vccgraphics.wordpress.com] Graphics Technology: You might think that papyrus is cool, but really I must tell you the truth - the papyrus font is about as outdated as the paper. Let’s face it, it’s one of the more stylized default fonts so everyone has decided it is cool enough to grace their designs.

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[Iheartpapyrus.com] I (HEART) Papyrus: If I start saving all my papyrus now, will I be able to live off of it when I’m not able to find it on my own? Does the government keep any of my papyrus now in order to “help” me later?

[Blog.myfinebooks.com] Fine Books Blog: Book Arts: “Papyrus, vellum, parchment””all those classical modes hold up pretty well.” Chris Weston, of the library’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, recounted what he called a typical story of old-style data preservation. “Someone in upstate New York was cleaning out the attic of an old farmhouse””and there was a letter from Benedict Arnold.

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