How can we write your conclusion without knowing what you've written?

You are asking a pretty vague question.

mind reading.

im not coming back here again, ask for just a little advice and get immature remarks, thanks a bunch

<em>im not coming back here again, ask for just a little advice and get immature remarks, thanks a bunch</em>

Methinks you are the one acting a bit immature.

Alex Haigh, I am waiting like you. As you know there are
three levels of present, where the will is the idea.
As you know your name comes from Greek 'alexein,' to defend.'
In typography, sex and technology you can see some things
and say-- why, but you can also dream unheard-of things,
and say-- why not ? It is fun. Nice, Tiffany, thanks.

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See you,
Alessandro

>Typography...what is the future?<

Have you asked and answered first, "what is the present?"
The future grows out of the present in hopefully unexpected ways. Thank God we cannot tell the future, it would make our current life meaningless. The future begins anew with each breath we take. Take a deep breath.

ChrisL

Alex/Rifty, I don't know if you're still reading this thread/site, but I don't think anybody meant any offense. The future tends to make people edgy. But to be fair, anybody who knows the future won't be here discussing it...

I think, I hope, that the future of type will be something highly organic and functional, something that can look beyond both chirography and constructivism, something that can start approaching what humanity really needs, as opposed to what turns on a clique of artistes, free from fear of the lack of control in life and free from selfish creativism/expressionism.

hhp

Ah, a typical Modernist reaction. :-) No matter what you say or do, they end up telling you "that's just Modernism", "you're a Modernist, you just don't realize it", etc. After all, everything has to fit within their box, otherwise it can't exist. If it can't be counted, it doesn't count. In fact this is part of the very difference between Mondernism and what I'm getting at: the naive lust for Total Formal Control, which I feel is against what humans really need. Control is sooooo 2nd millennium, dude.

hhp

So are National Enquirer readers.
"Eat raw moose. Fifty thousand wolves can't be wrong."

hhp

LOL!!!

Rifty. You must take Alessandro's remarks with a grain of salt. After all, he is Italian. ::wink:: On the other hand, in the conversations (via e-mail) I have had with him I've notice that he, Alessandro, thinks very theoretically and doesn't rely on the obvious to solve his problems.

Would it be possible for you to post your findings thus far?

Comedy.

Sorry this thread didn't work for Rifty, but it made me laugh,
which is often more important than correctly predicting the future.

=P

9 years on. :) The future is mobile.

Always in motion the future is.

1. Methinks (and I don't consider myself a full professional) we will see more bigger and diversified font families in the future. People will want to have a sans-serif accompanied by a serif, a script, grunge, inline and so on to save them the trouble of matching fonts. Multilingual support will become more important and the overall size of font files will increase. China will get on board with an increasing demand for kanji versions of fonts, and they should be well matched.

2. Fonts will be not only more diverse, but will be designed for devices with better and better resolution that will surpass the resolution of the eye. We'll see 30" Retina displays in the near future, and fonts for them. Probably devices themselves will be as thick as paper, and will be able to be folded - thus no separation between tablet, monitor, computer, smartphone.

3. By analogy with TV, type will probably move out of black and white territory and become colourful by design. You will be able to do design much more easily, MS Word will be able to do much of the stuff Photoshop does now. Maybe there will be better possibilities for animation of type, spawning a row of "kinetic typography of my laundry list" - type of design, same as with flash and it's "skip intro"

4. All in all, people will become much more lazy and difficult to entertain. They will want EVERYTH1NG, N()W! A simple well-made font, 2-3 weights, some italics - that won't be able to suffice. In an ecology of information overflow and a gazillion fonts, only the biggest families will be able to hold their own.

Seems that no matter what, the future is never now.

I am looking forward to it, Russell ;-)

Oh, but it is now :) We download information out of thin air and live of products very few people would understand even 30 years ago. People always wonder what I do and how we sell it, and what a font is. We live in Star Trek! :) It's a blessed age.