How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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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•41 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. :)

riffraff•about 3 hours ago

Typeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating

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...

keyle•16 minutes ago

    We 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.

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•40 minutes ago

Futura Free

xiaoyu2006•about 3 hours ago

A genuinely fun post.

ctippett•1 minute ago

I agree! A refreshing interlude to the cybersecurity postmortems and corporate layoff news.

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

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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