Cyberpunk
サイバーパンク / 1980s– / Style / Visions of the Future
Houses advanced technology and broken-down life together — hope and dread of the future at once.
Rainy nights / Multilingual neon / Dense cabling / Dark cities
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Speaking of technology's light and shadow together · Thick world-building for games and film
- Type
- Angular sans, monospace, multiple scripts
- Composition
- Stack information densely on dark planes
- Material
- Black, teal, red neon, raindrops
- Caution
- Don't use Asian cities as a symbol of otherness. Make the fictional social order concrete.
- Further study
- Syd Mead / Katsuhiro Otomo