swiftcoder14 minutes ago
I love just how dated some of these futuristic fonts now seem, having grown up with most of them
ako11 minutes ago
Yes brings me back to the 80s demo scene…
socalgal27 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"
BoredPositron3 hours ago
The future always has context.
p0w3n3d28 minutes ago
In 2016 to make text look futuristic it would require using — (m dash) a lot, and maybe …
dhosek9 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?).
benj1112 hours 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.
giancarlostoro14 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-Swizzle14 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.
giancarlostoro14 hours ago
Might have to snag it, and like you say, keep it laying around as a coffee table book somewhere. :)
bit_savager11 hours ago
"Somewhere"
genghisjahn13 hours ago
And then there is the papyrus font for avatar…
arionmiles2 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.
jayd168 hours ago
It's tribal, yet futuristic.
moron4hire13 hours ago
They can't keep getting away with it!
RobotToaster5 hours ago
For those who don't get it https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
nntwozz12 hours ago
Avatar 6 and 7 planned (there's a joke there somewhere).
Papyrus on the big screen 'til mid-to-late 2030s.
genxy5 hours ago
I know what you did!
Izkata11 hours ago
At least it wasn't Comic Papyrus...?
Animats14 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...
bhaak10 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.
ErroneousBosh2 hours 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.
riffraff14 hours ago
Typeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating
fredleyan hour ago
Almost exactly the playbook I followed (unwittingly) when designing a logotype for my Playdate game recently:
efitz6 hours ago
I 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.
mrexroad2 hours ago
FWIW, 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.
xiaoyu200614 hours ago
A genuinely fun post.
ctippett12 hours ago
I agree! A refreshing interlude to the cybersecurity postmortems and corporate layoff news.
jonhohle7 hours ago
Missing The Terminator. Also applies to Wipeout, a game with some of my favorite logo and design work.
doctorhandshake2 hours ago
The Designers Republic! https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/
sgt2 hours ago
I like how the first like made the entire mobile browser go yellow, even the buttons. How did they do that?
baigy9 hours ago
> the devastating Kern Wars of 2067
Do we know who won those wars?
jamonserrano6 hours ago
Had the other side won, we would know them as the Kem Wars.
mikestorrent8 hours ago
To be honest I've had a lot of difficulty telling the two sides apart
mrexroad2 hours ago
Revenge is a typeface best served with Serifs
Keeeeerrrrrrrrrrrnnn!!
marcosdumay7 hours ago
From the result there, looks like each faction got to keep some terrain.
harimau77713 hours 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!
jameshart11 hours ago
I think the author is aware: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostil...
harimau77710 hours ago
Nice! Thanks!
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booleandilemma11 hours ago
My first thought was "that's just the star trek font".
bigethan8 hours ago
this is exactly the ESPN logo as well
sosomoxie11 hours ago
Ironically (I’m sure with intent). This looks super 80s.
mproud10 hours ago
Very tongue-in-cheek
holotherapper12 hours ago
Futura Free
keyle12 hours ago
We want it to look like the text is stretching towards 2020
Who knew back then that we'd go from less design to no design at all produced by machines.
QuercusMax14 hours ago
This should have a (2016)
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timebeforeland14 hours ago
Is this a joke..?
dylan60413 hours ago
only if you don't get it