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Future Fonts: Tracing the Role of Typography in Science Fiction in Films

04 Aug

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Graphics & Branding. ]

Whether intentionally retro, as in Stranger Things, or overtly futuristic, as in RoboCop, the role of typography in a movie goes well past the title, subtly but powerfully shaping the world viewers are invited to experience.

Dave Addey, author and creator of Typeset in the Future, is as meticulous as he is obsessed, analyzing appearances of type in film line by line, providing insights, context and speculative answers to various uses (as well as typo corrections).

It started with Eurostile Bold Extended, which has made appearances from Star Trek to Wall-E. Since then, he has written about typography in Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Moon, and in anticipation of the sequel: Blade Runner.

With fonts you get a lot of context for free,” says Addey. “You’ve established the time frame for your movie in seconds without a lot of special effects or backstory.” It also tells you something about the world, like: when a single megacorp runs everything and its typeface is consequently found everywhere.

He watches films over and over again, taking notes then tracking down type, sometimes manually by searching through old books to find exact matches (in other cases: the typography is custom, making the process frustrating).

And type is just part of the equation: he looks at iconography and other design elements too, piecing together a larger picture of the various strategies in play and how they relate to the core narrative.

By zooming in on this one aspect of films, he often traces connections that are easy to miss, like: a newspaper being held by the lead character in Blade Runner later appearing as the liner for a drawer. For fans of sci-fi and design, his blog will take you deeper into films than you realized you could go — it is well worth checking out.

More about the project: “This site is dedicated to typography and iconography as it appears in sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV shows. It’s inspired by the Typeset In The Future trope I added to TV Tropes. (If you know of more good sci-fi font examples, please do add them to that page.)”

Just Your Type: Kooky, Real & Physical Typography & Fonts

The art of typography goes far beyond Arial and Helvetica. There is a certain elegance in the way that typographers can take a standard set of letters and turn them into unique and lovely works …

In Your (Type)Face: 12 Textual Examples of Typography Art

Typography is traditionally a rather flat pursuit: letters on a page, as beautifully designed as they may be, are still just two-dimensional images. But a growing number of artists and designers …

Down to the Letters: Amusing Animated Helvetica Alphabet

Unusual fonts and fun typefaces are fantastic enough, but when you combine unusual typefaces with stop-motion animation you’ve got something really special. The Alphabet 2 project from Italian …

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Get Good At Graphics Ep. 3 | How To Download And Install New Fonts To Photoshop

05 Nov

Hey guys, in this third episode of GGAG I Will be explaining, And demonstrating how to Download, And install new fonts for photoshop! (When you install a font it will be there in all your programmes that use a font :)) GGAG Is a series of unique, Easy to follow and most of all, grapchicly Enhancing tips!!
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Microsoft Word 2010 – Make Sure Others Can See Your Fonts

19 Oct

Embed fonts inside your Word 2010 documents to ensure others can see your texts as designed.

If you plan on exporting a Microsoft Word 2010 document to an earlier format for those with older versions of Office, or if you use non-standard fonts in your documents, others may not be able to see them as designed.

By default, Word 2010 does not include copies of fonts inside document files. If you send a file to a friend, co-worker, or family member, and they do not have the fonts referenced in the document, their copy of Word will try to substitute alternate fonts. Thus, your documents may not display as designed. However, this setting can be changed:…

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How to Download & Install Fonts to Photoshop [Mac][Easy]

15 May

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If you want to learn everything about the subject of cloning, head over to links.theartofretouching.com/cloning which is over an hour and 40 minutes. I’m going to show you how I use the Clone Stamp Tool, however before I do that I’m going to show you how I don’t actually use it. Like many of the photoshop options, the more advanced it gets, the harder it becomes to learn. In this video, I go through all the different options, checkboxes, and pull down menus. When you click on the icon in the tool palette it will bring up Clone Stamp Tool, and Pattern Stamp Tool. The Pattern Stamp Tool I never use. I’ll show you how that works, then explain why I don’t like it. When you click on the palette up top, you can select a pattern. You then paint using the pattern. If you click there and go off to the side you can then select a different group of patterns, which you have then to choose from. I really have difficultly seeing where this would be good, however it is possible that if you do something like this and then go under Filter — Distort — maybe Ocean Ripple or something, it does put enough of a distortion on that pattern to stop it from being an exact pattern. Then maybe there’s a reflection in the water. Something like that is possible, but for true retouching it’s not something I’m going to be using. I will go back to where I was. I’m going to go to the Clone Stamp Tool. Again, I’m going to show you how I don’t use it. I do not use this Clone Source. It does have some …
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