Stylogeny combining Techno-Futurist Graphics × Y2K Futurism

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Techno-Futurist Graphics × Y2K Futurism

Add Y2K chrome and translucent plastics to techno-futurist pictograms for a late-1990s consumer-electronics look.

From the research on Techno-Futurist Graphics

Mix them and make something Techno-Futurist Graphics Y2K Futurism

OrbitTechno-Futurist Graphics × Y2K Futurism
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Techno-Futurist Graphics, their arrangement from Techno-Futurist Graphics, the finish from Y2K Futurism. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Techno-Futurist Graphics Y2K Futurism

Type from Y2K Futurism
Colour from Techno-Futurist Graphics
Form from Techno-Futurist Graphics
Composition from Techno-Futurist Graphics
Surface from Y2K Futurism

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Y2K Futurism

Orbit

Michroma, standing in for Eurostile Extended

Text · Techno-Futurist Graphics

Electronic-music and video-game graphics of the late 1980s and 1990s that turned corporate modernism into a sci-fi consumer fantasy. Grids, Helvetica, pictograms, barcodes, warning labels and invented corporate logos were recombined with katakana, manga cuteness and early 3D, producing slick, flat, information-saturated surfaces that both celebrated and satirised technology and branding.

Inter; Techno-Futurist Graphics used Helvetica and Eurostile / Microgramma

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Techno-Futurist Graphics, with a counter-accent from Y2K Futurism. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Techno-Futurist Graphics Y2K Futurism

  • #f5f5f5 ground · 36%
  • #111111 ink · 14%
  • #00aeef accent · 18%
  • #1f6fff accent · 14%
  • #ec008c accent · 10%
  • #0095b6 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f5f5f5;
  --ink: #111111;
  --accent-1: #00aeef;
  --accent-2: #1f6fff;
  --accent-3: #ec008c;
  --accent-4: #0095b6;
  --font-display: "Michroma", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

A dense futuristic transport poster headed “ORBIT LINK” features a large cyan planet with pink and white orbital rings on a black circular field. Bright geometric icons, a spacecraft silhouette, a world map with routes, technical labels and barcodes fill the surrounding white layout. 1986–2002 · Western Europe, East Asia Techno-Futurist Graphics Electronic-music and video-game graphics of the late 1980s and 1990s that turned corporate modernism into a sci-fi consumer fantasy. Grids, Helvetica, pictograms, barcodes, warning labels and invented corporate logos were recombined with katakana, manga cuteness and early 3D, producing slick, flat, information-saturated surfaces that both celebrated and satirised technology and branding. A glossy silver-and-blue music player interface titled FLOW features an abstract glass orb wrapped in reflective, brightly tinted rings. Playback controls, a progress slider, a vertical icon toolbar, and four colorful sound preset thumbnails fill the lower and right edges. 1997–2005 · Global / networked Y2K Futurism The optimistic, chrome-plated vision of the future that surrounded the turn of the millennium, spread by consumer electronics, music videos, games, fashion and dot-com branding. Translucent candy-coloured plastics, liquid-metal and bubble 3D renders, lens flares, wide techno sans-serifs and icy silver-and-blue palettes sold the digital age as sleek, fluid and weightless, until the dot-com crash dimmed it.

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