THE BUREAU

In 1982, a 23-year-old designer named Chris Costello spent six months drawing a typeface by hand. He was thinking about ancient Egypt. He was not thinking about day spas, wedding invitations, vegan cafés, chiropractic clinics, or one of the highest-grossing films ever made.

Then the font shipped with every computer on earth, and something went very wrong.

PapyrusCrimes is a public register of the aftermath. Spot Papyrus in the wild, photograph it, pin it to the board. The internet decides how guilty it is.

What belongs here

• — Papyrus, out in the world, photographed by you.
• — Signage, menus, packaging, vans, invitations, movie posters, municipal notices. The stranger the venue, the better.
• — Close cousins are welcome if the crime is obvious. We are not running a lab.

What does not

• — People. Photograph the typography, not the staff, and never anyone who didn't agree to be here.
• — Anything that identifies or targets a private individual. Businesses are fair game; their employees are not.
• — Nudity, harassment, hate, or advertising. Every case carries a flag button, and flagged cases get pulled.

How this works

There are no accounts. Reports, statements and stickers are anonymous, tied only to a random id in your browser so you can't convict the same case twice. Photos are resized in your browser before upload, which also strips the GPS coordinates your camera embedded in them — we never receive them.