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2. "RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be"
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   > Little things
>like the typography of the film, and how much attention he paid
>to it. But then I'm a font nerd anyway.
>>(For instance, the opening title of the film. If you look at it, it's
>in Futura Medium, a different weight of the same font NASA used on its
>official diagrams and documents in the '60s - but it doesn't say
>2001, it says "2OO1", because in Futura that's more eyecatching.
>The capital O in Futura is a perfect circle - you can see that on the
>cover of Challenging the Cold Silence, which is in NASA's own
>Futura Heavy. Kubrick had his faults as a filmmaker, but one thing
>you can't say is that he let the little stuff slide. :)

Nit: Title card is Gill Sans. Futura does show up later though.

For anyone else who is or wants to become a font nerd and needs to know more about 2001's typography: TypesetInTheFuture has you covered.

-VR
I want a version of Manifold with lower case extensions to use for a programming font.
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."


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   RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be laudre Aug-16-14 1
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          RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be BobSchroeck Aug-18-14 7
  RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be VoidRandom Aug-16-14 2
      RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be Gryphonadmin Aug-16-14 3
          RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be VoidRandom Aug-16-14 4
   RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be ratinoxteam Aug-16-14 5
   RE: The Future's Not What It Used to Be The Traitor Aug-18-14 8


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