Steampunk
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Extends steam-age materials and machinery into a tangible alternate history.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- Brass
- Gears
- Leather
- Gauges
Best used for
- The romance of invention for stories and games
- Centering the feel of machinery
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Victorian serifs plus technical monospace
- Composition
- Layer machine drawings, labels, frames
- Material
- Brass, dark brown, soot, old paper
- Caution
- Don't just paste gears on. Keep the world's technology and society coherent.
- Further study
- Victorian engineering drawings / Steamboy
Related entries
- Blueprint (ブループリント)Shared effects: Futurity.Compare Steampunk and Blueprint
- Minimalism (ミニマリズム)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Steampunk and Minimalism
Often confused with
More from Visions of the Future
Continue through styles in the same Visions of the Future family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Solarpunk (ソーラーパンク)Shared effects: Futurity / Exhilaration.
- Cassette Futurism (カセット・フューチャリズム)Shared effects: Nostalgia / Futurity.
- Hexatron (ヘキサトロン)Shared effects: Futurity / Exhilaration.
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