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How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
- bhaak 5mo agoFunny. 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 5mo agoGiven 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.
- QuercusMax 5mo agoThis should have a (2016)
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoNeeds 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 5mo agoAs 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 5mo agoMight have to snag it, and like you say, keep it laying around as a coffee table book somewhere. :)
- bit_savager 5mo ago"Somewhere"
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoProbably my bookshelf lol
- xiaoyu2006 5mo agoA genuinely fun post.
- ctippett 5mo agoI agree! A refreshing interlude to the cybersecurity postmortems and corporate layoff news.
- riffraff 5mo agoTypeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating
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- timebeforeland 5mo agoIs this a joke..?
- dylan604 5mo agoonly if you don't get it
- Animats 5mo agoSomewhere, 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-that-took-over-movie/ https://letterboxd.com/sethpaul/list/trajan-the-typeface-tha...
- genghisjahn 5mo agoAnd then there is the papyrus font for avatar…
- moron4hire 5mo agoThey can't keep getting away with it!
- nntwozz 5mo agoAvatar 6 and 7 planned (there's a joke there somewhere). Papyrus on the big screen 'til mid-to-late 2030s.
- RobotToaster 5mo agoFor those who don't get it https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
- Izkata 5mo agoAt least it wasn't Comic Papyrus...?
- jayd16 5mo agoIt's tribal, yet futuristic.
- genxy 5mo agoI know what you did!
- arionmiles 5mo agoHe 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.
- harimau777 5mo agoI kind of wish they had used something other than Eurostyle for the starting font in their example since it is already a font that has become associated with sci-fi. Still a great article though! More of this please!
- jameshart 5mo agoI think the author is aware: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostile/ https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostil...
- harimau777 5mo agoNice! Thanks!
- holotherapper 5mo agoFutura Free
- keyle 5mo agoWe want it to look like the text is stretching towards 2020 Sigh, if only :| Who knew back then that we'd go from less design to no design at all produced by machines.
- booleandilemma 5mo agoMy first thought was "that's just the star trek font".
- sosomoxie 5mo agoIronically (I’m sure with intent). This looks super 80s.
- mproud 5mo agoVery tongue-in-cheek
- dhosek 5mo agoAt 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 5mo agoWe 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.
- baigy 5mo ago> the devastating Kern Wars of 2067 Do we know who won those wars?
- mikestorrent 5mo agoTo be honest I've had a lot of difficulty telling the two sides apart
- marcosdumay 5mo agoFrom the result there, looks like each faction got to keep some terrain.
- jamonserrano 5mo agoHad the other side won, we would know them as the Kem Wars.
- mrexroad 5mo agoRevenge is a typeface best served with Serifs Keeeeerrrrrrrrrrrnnn!!
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- bigethan 5mo agothis is exactly the ESPN logo as well
- jonhohle 5mo agoMissing The Terminator. Also applies to Wipeout, a game with some of my favorite logo and design work.
- doctorhandshake 5mo agoThe Designers Republic! https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/ https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic
- sgt 5mo agoI like how the first like made the entire mobile browser go yellow, even the buttons. How did they do that?
- socalgal2 5mo agoDoes 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 5mo agoThe future always has context.
- canes123456 5mo agoThe typeface could not be more different between the two. One is a sans serif font with many of the factors the author called out. The other calls back to hand illustration and comics IMO. What is the same is the color scheme and gradient. This likely is more about what was in style at the time for movie posters. You can also justify this is representive of the past part of back to the future.
- earthtograndma 5mo agoThey had top men working on the logo. Top men.
- efitz 5mo agoI dunno, it’s kinda futuristic, but it’s missing the faux 3d effect where it appears to have warped up close to you and left a trail of light behind it, like the Star Trek example of the end. Nothing says “future” like fake 3d effects.
- mrexroad 5mo agoFWIW, ST:TNG only used the faux 3D effect for the season that aired on the year of Star Trek’s 25th anniversary. Subsequent seasons reverted to the 2d text.
- fredley 5mo agoAlmost exactly the playbook I followed (unwittingly) when designing a logotype for my Playdate game recently: https://play.date/games/hyper-vector/ https://play.date/games/hyper-vector/
- p0w3n3d 5mo agoIn 2016 to make text look futuristic it would require using — (m dash) a lot, and maybe …
- swiftcoder 5mo agoI love just how dated some of these futuristic fonts now seem, having grown up with most of them
- ako 5mo agoYes brings me back to the 80s demo scene…
- alfiedotwtf 5mo agoNot only that, this article had the same feel of an old ANSI scene graffiti tutorial (I think it was made by the ACiD team
- pezezin 5mo agoFor maximum demoscene impact you need a metal gradient, like the European Megadrive logo.
- bhouston 5mo agoSome of this is based on the 1966 Star Trek logo: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series
- Archelaos 5mo agoRaumpatrouille Orion also from 1966 used a similar font style: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumpatrouille_%E2%80%93_Die_phantastischen_Abenteuer_des_Raumschiffes_Orion#/media/Datei:Raumpatrouille.svg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumpatrouille_%E2%80%93_Die_p... I reckon this style originated much earlier from the fonts used on the covers of science fiction books and magazines.
- jottinger 5mo agoOMG I died laughing at this. Then I came back to life. And died again.
- nedt 5mo agoBut Star Wars isn't from the future. Does that mean there is a time loop in fonts?
- pavel_lishin 5mo ago"This has happened before and it will happen again."
- skyberrys 5mo agoRacing in from the distant future comes StarTrek, and it even has a star field in the background! The hidden trick to take your text into the future.
- UncleSlacky 5mo agoNot to forget the Orion Pictures logo: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Orion_Pictures https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Orion_Pictures