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How To Make Your Text Look Futuristic

Typeset In The Future·Dave Addey·20 days ago
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We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie’s timeframe . But if Eurostile isn’t enough, there’s more you can do to clarify your 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: Rule 1:  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.  Rule 2:  What if we make things a bit more curvy in some places, and a bit more angular in others? I hear that’s all the typographic rage in 2035: That’s much better! There’s still more we can do, mind.  Rule 3:  How about adding some consummate Vs to a few of the letters? Yeah! That’d be cool!…

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