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riffraff•about 3 hours ago
Typeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating
genghisjahn•about 2 hours ago
And then there is the papyrus font for avatar…
moron4hire•about 1 hour ago
They can't keep getting away with it!
nntwozz•40 minutes ago
Avatar 6 and 7 planned (there's a joke there somewhere).

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

giancarlostoro•about 3 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•about 3 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•about 2 hours ago
Might have to snag it, and like you say, keep it laying around as a coffee table book somewhere. :)
Animats•about 2 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...

harimau777•about 1 hour ago
I 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!

holotherapper•39 minutes ago
Futura Free
xiaoyu2006•about 3 hours ago
A genuinely fun post.
QuercusMax•about 3 hours ago
This should have a (2016)
timebeforeland•about 2 hours ago
Is this a joke..?
dylan604•about 2 hours ago
only if you don't get it