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  • 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...

    by Animats
  • But Star Wars isn't from the future. Does that mean there is a time loop in fonts?
    by nedt
  • 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.

    by bhaak
  • Not to forget the Orion Pictures logo:

    https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Orion_Pictures

    by UncleSlacky
  • And then there is the papyrus font for avatar…
    by genghisjahn
  • 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

    by giancarlostoro
  • 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"
    by socalgal2
  • 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?).
    by dhosek

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