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.