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How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/
61•_vaporwave_•1h ago

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QuercusMax•42m ago
This should have a (2016)
giancarlostoro•42m 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•30m 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•19m ago
Might have to snag it, and like you say, keep it laying around as a coffee table book somewhere. :)
xiaoyu2006•30m ago
A genuinely fun post.
riffraff•27m ago
Typeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating
timebeforeland•22m ago
Is this a joke..?
Animats•8m ago
Somewhere, an LLM trained on this and can now produce cliche future fonts.

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