There's "ye olde" in a gothic font.
Walk into a super market, every product is giving you non textual clues as to what it is, and why it's different from the identical thing right next to it.
You notice the odd ones out because you have to stop and work out what the thing is.
Edit. An example is spreadable 'butter', in the UK and Europe you can't say it's butter, it doesn't say it's butter, but I bet most people have never noticed that because it's in butter type packaging with the design language you'd expect.
What is the same is the color scheme and gradient. This likely is more about what was in style at the time for movie posters. You can also justify this is representive of the past part of back to the future.
> 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
Papyrus on the big screen 'til mid-to-late 2030s.
Michroma is a Google Font alternative for Eurostile.
Is the Trajan fad over yet?[1]
[1] https://letterboxd.com/sethpaul/list/trajan-the-typeface-tha...
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumpatrouille_%E2%80%93_Die_p...
I reckon this style originated much earlier from the fonts used on the covers of science fiction books and magazines.
Still a great article though! More of this please!
Do we know who won those wars?
We want it to look like the text is stretching towards 2020
Who knew back then that we'd go from less design to no design at all produced by machines.