In Defense of Papyrus Font

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00:00 In Defense of Papyrus
2:46 Papyrus Avatar Logo Lmao??
4:45 hey,.... you're coole....
6:23 Papyrus is better than Comic Sans? Hot Take?
7:27 these aren't real chapters
9:11 polease comment: hey gabi. this video is really cool! thanks!

tags: #papyrus

[tarettime]

Gabi: *not knowing Papyrus was a thing before the font*
Me: *clicks on video thinking Gabi is about to do a video defending early paper making methods*

[KristofskiKabuki]

Hating Papyrus used to be the cool indie version of hating Comic Sans, but it's gone totally mainstream recently

[michaelramsey]

Confession: as a kid, Papyrus was my favorite font. I used it for EVERYTHING. I was actually surprised when I grew up and found out other people hated it.

[staycgirlsitsgoingdown]

Papyrus is a font that radiates the energy of the ancient Egypt section of a history museums website from the mid 1990s that hasn’t been updated since 1999 that your teacher makes you use as a source for your high school research project as a scientific source

[_Cotton]

Finally Sans' brother is getting some respect

[pezra_]

both the fonts comic sans and papyrus were mentioned in this video
this fills you with determination

[mostlysondheim]

only Gabi could make an interesting and funny 15 minute video about a font

[macbuff]

It should be noted that Papyrus originally did not have lower case letters. Those were added later which is why they don't seem to quite fit in

You should do a video on wingdings. I remember playing around with as a teen on my parent's computer. I never figured out what it was good for

[ensommeille]

Bonetrousle goes hard and his fight mechanics are really fun, don't know why anyone would be against Papyrus tbh

[LabRattKio]

i’ve always liked papyrus, but i think it was mostly because i was born in 95 and when i used computers in elementary/middle school it was the only non-boring font i could use that i could still read clearly. it’s still my go-to for chapter titles 😭

[jwaffles]

I’m loving how gabi’s content is leaning away from commentary and more towards “I’m sick of this Wikipedia rabbit hole and I’d rather a funny person just explain it to me”. Funny videos explaining shit that doesn’t matter is my jam!!!!

[bruce-le-smith]

i'm loving gabi's slow creep into being an official History channel show, eventually they will have no choice but to include her as part of the canon

[OwlScowling]

Ok true story: I go to church with the guy who invented the Papyrus font. He's actually a really nice guy.

[_imago]

toby fox is so brave for giving some proper representation to these opressed fonts. truly a hero.

[UshioKiss]

The reason Papyrus is everywhere is because it's free, and compared to the other fonts you get free on your computer, it's one of the more unique ones. And also it's free.

[alexkasper]

PREACH GABI!!! I'm a graphic designer and typography nerd and I greatly appreciated this video! Yes, the only things that make a font bad, that is badly designed, are a lack of consistency in style and a lack of functionality which largely comes down to issues with spacing. Huge kudos to Gabi for actually giving the correct definition of kerning! I feel like there are a number of people with graphic design degrees who think that kerning is the space between all letters, which is incorrect, tracking is the space between all letters. Kerning is the space between pairs of letter as Gabi correctly stated. I didn't know that Papyrus was originally bought by Letraset but that makes total sense. Letraset was a company that made these sheets of transfers that would have all the characters of a font in various sizes that were used by graphic designers to do mock-ups in the days before computers. You would use a burnishing tool and go over whatever letter you wanted to use and the letter would transfer onto your art, kinda like using tracing paper. Because Letraset was used so much in advertising and poster graphics there were lots of decorative fonts available as Letraset transfers, and it makes complete sense that Papyrus was one of them. The thing the designer never would have anticipated was that this decorative font that was meant to evoke something very specific would be given to the masses to be used for any random thing. My frustration with the hate towards Papyrus is exactly what Gabi explained, that it has appropriate uses and in the right context is perfectly fine, but it shouldn't be used for everything bc it has a very specific look. I love the designs on the Arizona Iced Tea cans, Papyrus is totally appropriate there, and I see nothing wrong with any vaguely mediterranean restaurant using Papyrus, that is what it was meant for! But it was designed for a different era. Nowadays a lot of decorative fonts have tons of alternate characters, come with border elements and cool symbols and dingbats and really give the user the ability to create logo designs with the font elements alone. Papyrus is decorative font that is very of its time and feels one-dimensional compared to what newer fonts can do, but it was well designed and doesn't deserved to be loathed (and judged) by so many... (especially bc so many of its most vocal opponents don't know jack shit about typography and use fonts that actually are badly designed (i.e. free fonts from dafont) without even realizing it....bc they don't understand that consistency and spacing are what make font design extremely difficult and Papyrus was actually designed by a pro)

[tranchdazzle]

gabi’s videos are like those presentation parties but only the friend who is good at it is presenting

[Smommasboy]

I liked Gabi and her videos since I first saw her, but she's really hit her stride, the writing and editing and alternate camera angles are rich with comedy and information at the same time. Excited to watch you succeed Gabi!

[infinite-ichthyologist]

Papyrus is such an underrated character, tbh

[rnelson]

I found out why I love this channel. This is basically Noah Samsen without the bisexual lighting and engagement with explicitly political topics. Seriously, everything from the editing, comedic style, and memes are like exactly the same. And I think that's cool.