Imaginary Sins: Why didn’t we know?

Imaginary Sins: Why didn’t we know?

Hey, the entire internet will warn you off from using Papyrus; you’ve got no one to blame but yourself.

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Naaman_Brown
Naaman_Brown
6 years ago

Imaginary? Everybody knows using Papyrus is a real sin.

dtw
dtw
6 years ago

Note that at least one major edition of Ballard’s Empire of the Sun uses Papyrus (http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/4f/52/4f522b9384a8b165979752b5641444341587343.jpg) – albeit with the cap baselines tinkered with. Make of that what you will.
But John here also seems keen on pruning the descenders off the letter y.

Naaman_Brown
Naaman_Brown
6 years ago
Reply to  dtw

Besides misuse, objections to Papyrus have included the capitals descending below the base line and the kern values built into certain capital/lowercase letter pairs (like Er and Tr). I have heard of variations on Papyrus designed to overcome those objections.

Ian
Ian
6 years ago

Aspiring authors if your tempted to use Papyrus for your cover, just say no!

Hitch
6 years ago

“Why didn’t we know?” Know what? We’re talking imaginary, right? How on earth could you know something that’s imaginary?