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Posted by Jan in
7 Dec 2009 — 3:52pm
7 Dec 2009 — 3:52pm
A couple of days ago I watched a documentary on archaeologists digging in Egypt. They had pre-printed forms to take notes. Now, take a guess what the pre-printed font on those forms was. (hint: If they’d been digging in Switzerland it would have been Helvetica.)
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7 Dec 2009 — 3:54pm
Hahaha .. Papyrus ?!
7 Dec 2009 — 9:49pm
I doubt it was Egyptienne.
7 Dec 2009 — 10:32pm
Since long ago Egypt was a British colony, I would suggest Gill Sans. It's seen a lot of use on forms and the like in Britain.
8 Dec 2009 — 2:16am
I know! It was this!
8 Dec 2009 — 4:03am
Egizio?
8 Dec 2009 — 5:23am
On the subject of which, I always snigger when I see covers of this publication on the shelf of my local WHSmith.
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8 Dec 2009 — 7:09am
Cairo? Karnak? Memphis? (Or FF Dig!?)
8 Dec 2009 — 12:13pm
Oh, that magazine could do with some "minor" touch-ups!
8 Dec 2009 — 1:09pm
It was Papyrus (of course).
Egyptienne would probably be on the forms of archaeologists digging in London for remains of the 19th century.
8 Dec 2009 — 1:45pm
(of course)
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The Latin name of Egypt is Aegyptus, which is nothing like papyrus.
8 Dec 2009 — 3:45pm
Nick, of course because it’s on every computer.
(My Helvetica-hint may have been a bit misleading.)
Egyptienne doesn’t walk like an Egyptian today like it did 200 (?) years ago.
For the amateur typographer Papyrus does.
Archaeologists should know about the egyptian fashion hype in the 19th century but a slab just doesn’t look egyptian today.
8 Dec 2009 — 7:07pm
http://www.ihatepapyrus.info/blog/
8 Dec 2009 — 7:14pm
I don't know who this guy is, but he seems pretty angry.
8 Dec 2009 — 9:51pm
And I thought this page was critical of Papyrus:
http://modernl.com/article/5-terrible-fonts-that-you-should-not-use-in-p...