Digital Future
A new typeography book.
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Digital Future
Digital Future
Jacob Mann
Green Smoke Studios Paperbacks
2012 Green Smoke Studios Paperback Digital Future is a pixel based font created for a University typeography class Copyright 2012 by The Mann Family Corp. Designed by Jacob Mann Text set by Sussie Q Manufactured in the United Staes of America Special Thanks to Fontstruct typeface builder program
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
9 8765432
To the future, may they learn from the mistakes of the past.
Created at the end 2012, Digital Future is a pixel based san-serif typrface. Being new to the world of typeography it has yet to make it’s mark but it’s future has great potential.
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It is said that the creator of Digital Future was inspired by the original Nintendo game counsel logo. It also resembles a less elegant Bauer Bodoni typeface minus serifs and curves.
Nintendo
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Digital Future was not intended for body text. Its main use is for display text.
Movie Posters
Ads
Video Game Cases
Product Marketing 3
8 pt
“Chewie and I will check it out, you two stay here.”
10 pt
“Chewie and I will check it out, you two stay here.”
16 pt “Chewie and I will check it out, you two stay here.”
22 pt
“Chewie and I will check it out, you two stay here.”
30 pt
“Chewie and I will check it out, you two stay here.” -Han
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Solo
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A Ve 5
Many of the letters are mirred images plus or minus a few key details.
IlIl
The capital I and lower case l a very similar except a little height difference
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All letters are made up of a variation of thick and thin lines. The left side of letters is usually made up of the heaviest line.
H N
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There are no curves, only diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines.
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B S
Cap Height
Ascender
Luke Skywalker Mean Height
Descender
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Base Line
Cap Height
Ascender
Galaga Mean Height
Descender
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Base Line
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This book was created to show off the new typeface Digital Future. It serves as a manuscript on the features, charecteristics and how the font should be used. This book was created in 2012, with special thanks to Fontstruct, Abobe InDesign and Courier New.
DIGITAL FUTURE