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The Comic Sans of the new millennium

By adamg on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:05pm

Andrew Teman is compiling a list of Boston restaurants that use the Papyrus font, because he's sick of it.

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By laurence_glavin on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:15pm.

I'm less concerned about the font a restaurant uses on its menu than whether or not when I order seafood, I GET THE ACTUAL SPECIES I ORDER. OK, there's literally no chance I'd get Chilean Sea Bass, but is Red Snapper too much to ask? Apparently, yes.

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By anon on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:18pm.

Well he's off to a terrible start. That "pita tyhme" place does NOT use Papyrus in their logo. It's a font called Tempus Sans ITC. They're SIMILAR, but they're not the same. If he's going to get all "font nazi" about Papyrus, he should at least learn what it looks like.

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By anon on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:33pm.

And why hasn't he taken the city to task for labeling half of their solar-powered trash cans in Jokerman?

"Boston Shines, 365!" JOKERMAN.

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By adamg on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:52pm.

Is that they all say "HEY KEEP IT CLEAN."

Even aside from the missing comma, I object to trash cans yelling at me.

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By anon on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 3:55pm.

The walk light buttons that squawk "wait" the instant you push them, as if you push the button as a prelude to rushing madly into the street.

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By Pumpkinhead on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:41pm.

For those curious about the difference:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/6xf29ZH.jpg)

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By pierce on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:24pm.

if it only has one item, can it truly be called a "list"?

So far this seems more like a beef than a list.

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By Neal on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:42pm.

Maybe someone should compile list of people who still use Foursquare, the Friendster of the new millennium. I thought I was the last person to get rid of it months ago.

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By Stevil on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:50pm.

This must be the guy that puts in all the complaints about fixing the fonts on road name signs! You've been exposed - fontist!

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:55pm.

Papyrus hating is so 2010.

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By anon on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 2:03pm.

the new font we're supposed to hate on?

I despise Calibri, the new Microsoft Office default font. It's just ugly.

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By Katia on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 5:06pm.

Oh my GOD, I HATE CALIBRI.

I reconfigured my personal Office suite back to Times New Roman but everyone else in the office uses Calibri all the time now. It's awful.

(And don't get me started on cursive fonts as email signatures)

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By Andrew on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 2:36pm.

When my mis-informed, shitty-joke-making, time-wasting content turns into a multi-layered forum filled with mis-informed, shitty-joke-making, time-wasting content, I feel that I've properly fulfilled my obligation to the

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By Michael Kerpan on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 3:14pm.

You should have at least thanked Pumpkinhead for his informative graphic showing the differences between Papyrus and Tempus Sans.

;-}

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By Dave on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 10:53pm.

But I draw the line at Zapf Dingbats.

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