Comments on: Papyrus

By: dc32

dc32 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:31:48 +0000

There is no italic or bold versions of Papyrus, it simply does NOT exist!! As mentioned above, in MS Word you can apply “bold” and “italic” effects to any font, but there are not true bold or italics versions of Papyrus.

I came across this issue myself, I’m a graphic artist at a printing company, we had a restaurant bring in a hard copy of their menu wanting us to recreate it which uses Papyrus heavily, including bold and italicized versions. I tried to find the variations myself as well but after much research I’ve come to this conclusion. If you have the ability to you can set the text in MS Word then make a PDF of it then import it into InDesign or whatever program as a graphic. Or simply choose a better font.

By: Roberta Ossana

Roberta Ossana — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:24:30 +0000

I work on Mac OS X 10.6.8 will in near future upgrade to LION

I LOVE/NEED Papyrus in Italic and Bold, as shown on this page. Where can I get/purchase? I have Papyrus Regular/was installed on iMac at purchase.

Please help. Urgent! PrePRESSURE for sure

email: Publisher@DreamNetwork.net

By: Carla

Carla — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:59:23 +0000

This does not answer the question. You assume we are all computer wizzes. Please explain more clearly & simply how to do this on a MAC?
Thank you.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:01:28 +0000

“You can apply the BOLD command to Papyrus in MS Word ”

And therein lies the age-old problem of font bastardisation! There are some fonts that are just not meant to be emboldened or italicised and this is one of them. If it wasn’t for the likes of MicroS**t designeres and typographers would have a much easier life.

Italicising a font isn’t just a case of slanting it to the left 15 degrees. Take a look at Times Roman and Italic. Look at the lower case ‘a’. Notice the difference? Case closed.

Grrrrrrrrrr!

By: Tim Tavis

Tim Tavis — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:26:05 +0000

You can apply the BOLD command to Papyrus in MS Word under Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6. I can’t figure out how to do it in Pages, though, and that’s very unfortunate, since I use it for my letterhead.

By: Laurens

Laurens — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:53:51 +0000

ITC Papyrus does not include bold or italic faces. I created the samples with my previous PC using Photoshop. That application doesn’t allow the creation of fake or faux fonts, so I must have had a version of Papyrus installed that included bold and italic, without realizing I wasn’t using the official release. Unfortunately I have no way of finding out which vendor created the Papyrus look-alike that was installed on my previous system. Sorry about the confusion.

By: Mike Wallbridge

Mike Wallbridge — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:59:03 +0000

I’m with Whitney. Where can I find bold and italic versions of Papyrus for my Mac? I’m using Scrivener to write a novel and Papyrus is so easy on my eyes but I do need italic especially.

By: Whitney

Whitney — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:04:24 +0000

How did you get BOLD/Italic papyrus? My mac only comes with regular papyrus and I’ve been searching high and low for a bold version! Help!

By: Nelson B

Nelson B — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:27:19 +0000

Another rant at http://xkcd.com/590/