If you are a fan of the TV series Stranger Things, then the ITC Benguiat and it's very close alternative I propose (Eighties Horror) will probably look familiar to you.
So, thank you Jordan Mechner and others like you for creating these wonderful pieces of art and programming.
Each poster has to be carefully set up and photographed in high resolution and its metadata entered into the database.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a free version of the font, but there's paid version called Ampacity that resembles the font quite well.
Curtis Armstrong filmed Risky Business but then was unemployed for a year before he got Revenge of the Nerds.
The letter Delta in the Greek alphabet is written as a triangle, and in ancient greeks it meant the place where multiple rivers meet.
There is an entire sub Reddit dedicated to synthwave and 80s retrofuturistic aesthetics, so I asked my question there.
Though, I don't know for sure, if I had to guess, the font used for the title of Ender's Game is also ITC Benguiat and with a warp applied to it.
During the following years though to the 60s, 70s and 80s chrome plating began to be widely used as a symbol of the future.
Looks like the retro sun and palm trees silhouettes are related to the surf culture of the west coast.
And they liked it so much that, every time Takashi and I were in the room together, we would have to come up with something else.
Game designers produced some really amazing designs and their influence is still felt a lot nowadays, especially in modern retro design.
Kanew cast him because he saw him on the cover of a Men of USC calendar, sold at the University of Arizona bookstore.
The template also includes a beautiful 80s background from Textures4Photoshop and I've aded this nice neon glowing triangle also from Textures4Photoshop.
But sometimes sadly, our desire and destiny are not same, often it turns out that people we love actually love somebody else or don't love us back.
As a result, much of the collection held at UT Austin is from the 1940s through the 1970s, the heyday of Interstate's reign over Texas theaters.
Probably that's why the fonts used for his name on most of his books is now associated with this genre.
Club that he didn't want to appear in Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, but acquiesced because the producers talked him into it.
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In the summer of 1984, nerds were mainly perceived as guys who wore pocket protectors and had tape on their glasses.
This kicked off a huge boost for graphic design and the creation of music videos, something that was rather scarce at the time.
The movie scored in the 60s, which caused Fox to cut marketing for the film and only release it on 364 screens.
This design style has been used a lot especially with the comeback of the 80s music styles known as synthwave, retrowave or futuresynth.
The font's main characteristic is the fact that all letters are made using a single continuous line making it perfect for neon signs.
Video games had a great influence on me and they were one of the reasons that made me want to become a programmer.
I've recently read a lot about the death of disco and the birth of house music, Memphis group design, synthesizers, etc.
Two years after Led Zeppelin officially disbanded after the death of their drummer John Bonham, the album Coda was released in 1982.
As of right now, 4000 of the posters have been digitized, and the collection is slowly becoming available online.
The night city lights together with the stop lights of the car and the foggy atmosphere of synthwave music videos produce a neon like effect.
The entirety of the Ransom Center collection won't be available online for a while, because the process involves more than just scanning the original material.
His films and soundtracks made and performed for his films were such a big influence on 80s culture that I decided to dedicate a separate section in this post.
Not that I'm complaining, but they seriously overpaid me for my weeks of work on the film, so I used it to put in a pool.
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Orson Scott Card's book was published in 1985 and had a beautiful book cover design made by John Harris.
For each of the 80s font I tried to find the original or the closest match and provided a download link and an example of what you can do with these fonts.
Poster title fonts: similar to Titillium Web Black (FREE) or Frutiger Next ltblack (FREE) (please contact me if you know what it actually is).
