Showing posts with label papyrus font. Show all posts
Showing posts with label papyrus font. Show all posts

04 October 2007

Papyrus font also fails in neon.


Walked by this place, Prey, today in midtown. They reinforce the neon Papyrus font with a brown-on-brown scheme on their miserable website.

Quoth Preynyc.com:

"Prey prides itself on great service and its true multidimensional aspect that few places in NYC share. Prey's main room houses a 40 foot long bar whereby making PREY a premier Happy Hour Spot Mon-Friday."

Multidimensional aspect? Whereby making? Easy there, Chaucer--work on the font, then we can talk conjunctions...and that's to say nothing of the name...

02 October 2007

Dear Papyrus Font,


It's time to bow out. It's too late to do so gracefully, and I'm sure you'll disappoint some Irish pub owners, homemade-greeting-card-making mothers, and highschool science fair students, but they're happy-go-lucky folks and can handle it.

At some point or another, we all fell prey to your vaguely mysterious angles, irregular serifs, and simulated brushstrokes, but let's be honest here: who's still wearing slap bracelets, fannypacks, and pump sneakers? Exactly.

Microsoft fontdustrial complex, tighten up.

PS A nod to www.iheartpapyrus.com for getting it together, and putting it on a t-shirt.