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?).

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

this is exactly the ESPN logo as well

And then there is the papyrus font for avatar…

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...

Typeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating

> the devastating Kern Wars of 2067

Do we know who won those wars?

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.

I kind of wish they had used something other than Eurostyle for the starting font in their example since it is already a font that has become associated with sci-fi.

Still a great article though! More of this please!

A genuinely fun post.

Very tongue-in-cheek

My first thought was "that's just the star trek font".

    We want it to look like the text is stretching towards 2020

Sigh, if only :|

Who knew back then that we'd go from less design to no design at all produced by machines.

Ironically (I’m sure with intent). This looks super 80s.

Futura Free

This should have a (2016)

Is this a joke..?