If studying about typography in my years as a design student taught me anything, it taught me that on the whole, over the years the basics still hold. The typefaces we use today are all based off of ones that were designed generations ago. Why reinvent the wheel? Why redesign letterforms that have worked so well for so long? We work best with what we find familiar.  The computer has taken over our desk's top, but what does it do? It replicates a desk! Our desktops are covered with files, folders, and pictures, just like they used to be.

It is for that reason that I love looking at how science fiction thinks the computers of the future will change so dramatically, including the typography used on those computers. Over the years, while taking notes in class, to write faster I developed a way to write that forms each letter with only one line that mimics these science fiction based typefaces, while still being understandable.

Using fontstruct, I was able to craft a version of this typeface that is very close to this typeface, but due to the limitations of the platform, ended up only close to the typeface as invisioned, so let's consider it a "beta release". I've named it MINIMAX, because it does the maximum it can with the minimum amount of lines.

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