Typeset In The Future

While watching classic science fiction films like Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey, do you find yourself distracted from the plot because you spend so much time studying the typography of the computer displays, the signs in public areas, and whether Ripley’s name really appears in Pump Demi in a nameplate in the main cabin of the Nostromo?

No?

Well, truth be told, me neither, but fortunately Dave Addey has done all that obsessing for us in Typeset In The Future.

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