Cyberpunk
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Advanced technology and ruined daily life share the same frame, so the future arrives as promise and as threat.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Rainy nights
- Multilingual neon
- Dense cabling
- Dark cities
Best used for
- Speaking of technology's light and shadow together
- Thick world-building for games and film
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Dictionary entry
- 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
Related entries
- Minimalism (ミニマリズム)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Cyberpunk and Minimalism
- Tableau Photography (タブロー写真)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Cyberpunk and Tableau Photography
Often confused with
More from Visions of the Future
Continue through styles in the same Visions of the Future family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Afrofuturism (アフロフューチャリズム)Shared effects: Futurity / Rebellion.
- Hexatron (ヘキサトロン)Shared effects: Futurity / Exhilaration.
- Cassette Futurism (カセット・フューチャリズム)Shared effects: Futurity.
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- https://indexstyle.org/styles/cyberpunk
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- [Cyberpunk — IndexStyle](https://indexstyle.org/styles/cyberpunk)
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