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How to make your text look futuristic

Hacker News · May 12, 2026, 8:16 PM

Key takeaways

  • We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie s timeframe.
  • We ll start with some simple sans-serif text, such as this randomly chosen word in Eurostile Bold.
  • We want it to look like the text is stretching towards 2020:

We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie s timeframe. But if Eurostile isn t enough, there s more you can do to clarify your movie s timeframe. I d like to introduce you to six easy rules that are pretty much guaranteed to position your text firmly in the FUTURE.

We ll start with some simple sans-serif text, such as this randomly chosen word in Eurostile Bold. So far, so 2016:

Rule 1: First, let s add an italic slant. We want it to look like the text is stretching towards 2020:

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