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Posted by _vaporwave_ 14 hours ago

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)(typesetinthefuture.com)
365 points | 47 comments
swiftcoder 1 minute ago|
I love just how dated some of these futuristic fonts now seem, having grown up with most of them
p0w3n3d 15 minutes ago||
In 2016 to make text look futuristic it would require using — (m dash) a lot, and maybe …
socalgal2 6 hours ago||
Does the Back To The Future logo really count? Raiders of the Lost Ark as a very similar style but does not evoke "future". Yes, there are subtle differences. My point is, if you divorced them from the connection to their content I think it would be hard to point to one as "future" and the other as "not future"
BoredPositron 2 hours ago|
The future always has context.
dhosek 8 hours ago||
At the 1996 ATypI meeting in Den Haag, one of the speakers coined the term “sterotypography” to refer to certain cliches that get used in type usage. Another case of this is the use of Neuland and Neuland Inline to represent Africa, and of course the assortment of faux Chinese fonts that were ubiquitous on Chinese takeout menus in the 80s and 90s (and probably still are, but are there still takeout menus in the era of Grubhub?).
benj111 1 hour ago|
We use this sort of short hand all the time.

There's "ye olde" in a gothic font.

Walk into a super market, every product is giving you non textual clues as to what it is, and why it's different from the identical thing right next to it.

You notice the odd ones out because you have to stop and work out what the thing is.

Edit. An example is spreadable 'butter', in the UK and Europe you can't say it's butter, it doesn't say it's butter, but I bet most people have never noticed that because it's in butter type packaging with the design language you'd expect.

giancarlostoro 14 hours ago||
Needs a (2016)

> Posted on February 18, 2016 by Dave Addey

Great read otherwise, I know the author mentions their book, I do wonder if he covers the history of how these fonts came to be so standard... for future stuff

JK-Swizzle 13 hours ago|
As someone who has read the book, it does go through the history and inspiration of modern sci-fi typeset. Great coffee table book. Mainly expands on the articles on the website with more details and graphics.
giancarlostoro 13 hours ago||
Might have to snag it, and like you say, keep it laying around as a coffee table book somewhere. :)
bit_savager 10 hours ago||
"Somewhere"
genghisjahn 12 hours ago||
And then there is the papyrus font for avatar…
arionmiles 2 hours ago||
He just... highlighted Avatar. He clicked the dropdown menu, and then he randomly selected Papyrus. Like a...Like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden, just yanking leaves along the way.
jayd16 8 hours ago|||
It's tribal, yet futuristic.
moron4hire 12 hours ago|||
They can't keep getting away with it!
RobotToaster 4 hours ago|||
For those who don't get it https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
nntwozz 11 hours ago|||
Avatar 6 and 7 planned (there's a joke there somewhere).

Papyrus on the big screen 'til mid-to-late 2030s.

genxy 4 hours ago|||
I know what you did!
Izkata 11 hours ago||
At least it wasn't Comic Papyrus...?
Animats 13 hours ago||
Somewhere, an LLM trained on this and can now produce cliche future fonts.

Is the Trajan fad over yet?[1]

[1] https://letterboxd.com/sethpaul/list/trajan-the-typeface-tha...

bhaak 10 hours ago||
Funny. I just googled this site 2 hours ago for a font inspiration for a makerspace logo.

Michroma is a Google Font alternative for Eurostile.

ErroneousBosh 1 hour ago|
Given the name you'd think it would be an alternative for Microgramma, but no, no - just look at the internal corners on letters like N, W, and V. In Microgramma they'd be flattened off but in Michroma and Eurostile they come to a point.
fredley 1 hour ago||
Almost exactly the playbook I followed (unwittingly) when designing a logotype for my Playdate game recently:

https://play.date/games/hyper-vector/

riffraff 13 hours ago|
Typeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating
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