There are a lot of fonts out there, but it seems that few get as reused as Papyrus does. Since I’ve begun looking for it, I’ve seen it nearly everywhere, from product labels and advertisements to the signs of the stores marketing them. Papyrus is generally the Font of Choice for the organic and healthy food market; it’ll often show up on packaging for teas and whole-grain foods. In an effort to document the widespread usage of this otherwise-unique font, I’ve developed a website, Papyrus: A Plague of Typography, in which users are free to post their own photographs of semi- to wholly- permanent instances of the font. These photographs must be coupled with a concrete street address, because, once posted, they are automatically placed on a map displaying all of these sightings from around the world.
It’d be wonderful if all who are interested would participate in this project.
I didn’t add this to your sightings on the Plague page because it’s from a website, but it is a marketed product that bears the proud Font.
http://www.scoutsswag.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=21_69
Plus, it uses the clever pun “Knitters Rule,” which describes not only the knitting needle size gauge/ruler, but one of the fundamental facts of the Universe.
Nothing like knitting-themed double entendres to lift one’s spirits! And thanks for submitting the photographs, by the way. What were you doing in Seekonk, though? Just…browsing?
The only reason I’m restricting uploads to include only geographically locatable occurrences is that I want them to all dot the map; however, with Papyrus’ surfeit, perhaps it would make sense to have a separate gallery where pictures of websites and the like could be placed. What do you think?
I truly understand. It’s up to you; the only trouble with including every single example of the Font it could become a monster with a life of its own. Then take over the world. Shudder. Seekonk is about a stone’s throw from where we live now. If we want to go to the land of strip malls, plus a town with an awesome name, while at the same time visiting a whole ‘nother state, why, we just head on over to the ‘Konk.