How to make your text look futuristic (2016) • Hacker News Board

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!

Re: How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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Post by nntwozz » Tue, May 12, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

moron4hire wrote: post #13

genghisjahn wrote: post #12

And then there is the papyrus font for avatar…

They can't keep getting away with it!

Avatar 6 and 7 planned (there's a joke there somewhere).

Papyrus on the big screen 'til mid-to-late 2030s.

Re: How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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Post by holotherapper » Tue, May 12, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

Futura Free

Re: How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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Post by keyle » Tue, May 12, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC

    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.

Re: How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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Post by ctippett » Tue, May 12, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC

xiaoyu2006 wrote: post #4

A genuinely fun post.

I agree! A refreshing interlude to the cybersecurity postmortems and corporate layoff news.

Re: How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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Post by Izkata » Tue, May 12, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

genghisjahn wrote: post #12

And then there is the papyrus font for avatar…

At least it wasn't Comic Papyrus...?

Re: How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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Post by booleandilemma » Tue, May 12, 2026, 11:51 PM UTC

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