"If you’ve ever seen a futuristic sci-fi movie, you have may noticed that all other fonts have been lost or destroyed in the apocalypse that led humans to flee earth. Only those very few geometric typefaces have survived to be used on spaceship exteriors, space station signage, monopolistic corporate branding, uniforms featuring aerodynamic shoulder pads, etc. Of course Orbitron could also be used on the posters for the movies portraying this inevitable future."
Steampunk mutherfucker. I keep trying to use Eaglefeather because I'm just that kind of an asshole but the readibility sucks. Back when I did my eBay auctions in Dreamweaver I could bust eBay's CSS so that it would display everything in Papyrus. That was fuckin' fun. And lucrative. Dunno why but a cracked-ass eBay CSS earned me more for my auctions. It's funny how many of the good fonts are old. I use bellgothic a lot because the readibility is high and that font is 80 years old. Anonymous Pro is nice, but kinda cheap-looking.
This is one of those things that I've been exposed to time and time again but have never really considered. It really is the only typeface used when showing the text of the future. -Definitely in dystopian post apocalyptic films. Finally, an alternative.
Fuckin' everyone uses Bank Gothic. I used it in my logos starting in 2003 and then fuckin' Battlestar Galactica happened and now it's fuckin' ridiculous. When we did our short we actually had a font designed.