About
This website is meant to document the atrocious overuse of what could otherwise be a unique font. Through the aid of Google Maps and your digital cameras, we're marking each and every place the papyrus font is used around the world. So, join in and help us build one of the largest user-created databases of Papyrus sightings on the web!
History
Over four thousand years ago, ancient Egyptians first developed a process of creating paper by drying reeds and fastening them together. They used these scrolls for practical purposes: drawing hilarious pictures, comparing architectural notes with reptilian overlords, and compiling horror stories from which R.L. Stine would base the majority of his work. Several millenia since then, a certain typographer--Chris Costello--created a typeface to represent what he imagined modern English would look like if it were written onto papyrus.1 Now, as a seriously-delayed retaliation from the Biblical plagues, the Papyrus font has found its way onto billboards, store windows, Oprah's Book Club, and other sundry places across the United States (and presumably world).
Text-messaging services are expected to use Papyrus
as their standard typeface by 2015.
1. An interview with Chris Costello can be found at the I Heart Papyrus website.