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Old 01-26-2010, 06:08 PM   #618
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by octothorp View Post
One more thing to add: Papyrus!!!! After $300 million dollars, years spent developing the Na'vi world, culture, and language (which sounded pretty cool and convincing), years more spent immaculately art-directing the film, and then when it comes to picking a font for the subtitles, they spent five minutes to identify the most ethnicky-looking one that comes pre-installed on their computer? Nobody who's not a graphic designer is going to care about it, but it ranks only a little behind comic sans as the most mocked font out there.
Yeah, the Papyrus font really annoyed me because it stuck out like a sore thumb. #1 most overused font of the 2000s.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/stuffchris...yrus-font.html
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