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"He just highlighted Avatar, he clicked the drop down menu, and then he randomly selected Papyrus, like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden yanking leaves along the way." [1]

As iconic a moment as the creation of the first sans serif font [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

[2] "The earliest printing typefaces which omitted serifs were not intended to render contemporary texts, but to represent inscriptions in Ancient Greek and Etruscan. Thus, Thomas Dempster's De Etruria regali libri VII (1723), used special types intended for the representation of Etruscan epigraphy, and in c. 1745, the Caslon foundry made Etruscan types for pamphlets written by Etruscan scholar John Swinton." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#:~:text=The%20earli....




I have watched that skit at least a dozen times. It hits me deep. Gosling really sold it.

This thread made me finally look up its origins which are a bit interesting.

https://ew.com/tv/2017/12/19/snl-writer-julio-torres-avatar-...




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