Six Typography Rules to Make Text Look Futuristic
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Summary
A humorous, satirical guide on how to make text look futuristic using typography rules. The article walks through six easy rules starting with Eurostile Bold Extended font, adding italic slants, and other typographic tweaks to give text a sci-fi or futuristic appearance. The tone is playful and instructional, poking fun at design clichés used in movies and media to signal a futuristic setting.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledWe've already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie's timeframe.
I'd like to introduce you to six easy rules that are pretty much guaranteed to position your text firmly in the FUTURE.
We'll start with some simple sans-serif text, such as this randomly chosen word in Eurostile Bold. So far, so 2016:
First, let's add an italic slant. We want it to look like the text is stretching towards 2020:
Hmm. It's still a little boring.
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