Comments on: $237 million Avatar movie’s font is… Papyrus?

By: Don’t Get Dressed in the Dark | One Voice

Don’t Get Dressed in the Dark | One Voice — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:41:05 +0000

[...] The general consensus is that for such a large budget movie, more time, effort and money could have been spent to select a more suitable typeface for the posters and subtitles http://aaronweyenberg.com/402/avatar-movie-font-is-papyrus. [...]

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 21 May 2011 21:20:31 +0000

You must have come here from reddit. Why care? Because it’s absurdly lazy. As a 3d animator I’d think you’d be somewhat familiar with the quality of work that detailed, tedious effort yields. Sorry, the same tired, lame font used on coffee shop street signs and cheesy DVD’s just shouldn’t be recycled for a $200 million movie.

http://www.papyruswatch.com/

A good story? I guess if you liked Pocahontas or Dances With Wolves, then you liked Avatar — because it’s basically the same predictable plot:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/04/avatar-pocahontas-in-spacn410538.html

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/avatar-astonishing-spectacle-predictable-plot-116558

By: jr

jr — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:37:44 +0000

Who cares!!! The movie itself was amazing and in reality that’s all that matters. I’m a 3d animator and I was amazed by the detail and quality put into the 3d models, characters, textures. Animation, camera motion and above all that they had a good story. So what if they spend 10 mins in the font?? That’s the reason why we get so many crappy movies because people focus on things that don’t matter. So please stop wasting your time writing dumb articles. Thanks

By: Great Minds… « OMG! Papyrus!

Great Minds… « OMG! Papyrus! — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:21:15 +0000

[...] hate the use of Papyrus in Avatar. Tags it's not just me, papyrus in avatar, srsly? Categories [...]

By: Don’t Get Dressed in the Dark. You’ll Get Laughed At! « Taking Aim

Don’t Get Dressed in the Dark. You’ll Get Laughed At! « Taking Aim — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:04:08 +0000

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:51:59 +0000

I literally gagged when I saw the first trailer for Avatar and recognized the title font as Papyrus. I told my friends I was boycotting the movie because of this fact (of course this did not last, need to see this movie). You really would think that with the unlimited budget and the insane attention to detail that James Cameron has, they would have hired someone to design a custom, one-of-a-kind font. Is this not standard for big budget films? (i.e. Harry Potter, The Matrix, and not-so-big-budget Star Wars)

By: Blaz

Blaz — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:56:07 +0000

I hate that font. I could not believe they used it… Maybe the most overused font in the history, after Comic sans and Bauhaus…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:01:49 +0000

As I outlined above, they have modified the paths for each of the glyphs for Papyrus in an attempt to make it look somewhat original. Even if I could, I wouldn’t be able to legally post a font like that.

By: ScreenFonts: December 2009 | The FontFeed

ScreenFonts: December 2009 | The FontFeed — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:13:46 +0000

[...] the notches in the outlines by several people proved conclusive – see for example the graphic on Aaron Weyenberg’s blog. The face was also used in standard setting for subtitling the Na’vi language. So we’re [...]

By: Hassen

Hassen — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:17:50 +0000

Can u post that font? =) not papyrus, but the real one of avatar =) i love it