The Futuristic Looking Font

It’s funny, when designers try to represent the future with a digital looking typeface. We go and represent it with some cold, sterile, 8-bit looking font or better yet the LCD typeface. How many more lame braille looking fonts will we have to endure, telling us that, that is how the future of type will look like. Or worse, when we see it, we accept that this is our future. Maybe we will lose an entire understanding of type so therefore we just drop type all together and go blind.

If you’re looking to represent the future, you might as well use an Asian character set like Chinese. Get over the shock that you might have to learn another language and accept that Chinese will be displayed across the entire spectrum of digital because of the direction the economy is going.

The next question is what does the future look like? Get out the crystal ball and ask yourself…. will the city of manhattan be taken over by zombies infected by a serious case of herpes. Or did the world get hit by WW3 suffering from fallout? In which case, all typefaces suffer from a halt in technology.

Or perhaps, flying cars, talking robots where the world has gotten seriously lazy, stupid and fat. Like the present on steriods, but attacked by a serious case of commercialism. Below, it looks like Circle K, Dunkin’ Donuts and Toys ‘R’ Us has had their way with the future of type and now everything looks like we walked into a world of Hello Kitty.

What is the future font? There are many who see the future of type having a more dynamic functionality embedded within its system. I can see that happening, but will the style of the font change for the better or for the worse?