The retro sun has a very distinct look, having an orange gradient color and stripes. I had to do a lot of digging and research. There is an entire sub Reddit dedicated to synthwave and 80s retrofuturistic aesthetics, so I asked my question there. Looks like the retro sun and palm trees silhouettes are related to the surf culture of the west coast. It goes beyond the 80s to the 70s. Someone on the sub-reddit thread gave me the idea to look into registered trademark logos of companies in the 80s, and it's clear that the striped sun and palm trees were widely used symbols back then.
Neon lights are also very present in outrun design. It's probably because of 70s and 80s disco influence. Disco clubs often had neon lights.
Another thing is that synthwave music is often associated with a race car drivig at night. The night city lights together with the stop lights of the car and the foggy atmosphere of synthwave music videos produce a neon like effect. Creating the neon effect in Photoshop ca be quite tricky, but you can easily create realistic neon effects using one of my Photoshop action from Graphic river:. The triangle is a powerful symbol.
It can stand for both female and male energies, for harmonies of time, mind, body and emotion. The letter Delta in the Greek alphabet is written as a triangle, and in ancient greeks it meant the place where multiple rivers meet.
So, a confluence of energies. Guess this is very much in line with the feeling of 80s music and synthwave music. The synthwave movement is associated with forever young and rebel spirits. So, the race car symbol is not really hard to explain. The artist Kavinsky drives a Ferrari Testarossa - a classic retro car - and was inspired by this car for his first album "Testarossa Autodrive".
The movie Drive only came to build up on the symbolism of speed and old sport cars in synthwave. I hope you enjoyed this article about 80s fonts and modern retro design as much as I enjoyed writing it. I'm sure I barely scratched the surface and for sure you can write books about this subject.
So, perhaps I will come back to this subject if I get enough positive feedback from you guys. Please rate this article if you've enjoyed it and please drop me a comment below to let me know if I've missed anything. Passionate about retro art? I've been studying various aspects of retro art and I particularly took a closer look at pop art.
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With your donation you can help us maintain this website and keep producing free resources many months to come! Any amount counts. Be a Cool Dude! Ya'll didn't leave out anything! The structure of your article: very helpful indeed - yeah, you already knew that. I love your 80s post, though. You put a lot of thought to the subject, and it shows.
You also invested a lot of time researching the various sources and directions of 80s' design. It's my favourite design period, and I'd love for you to come back to it! Maybe another article, more of your thoughts on the matter? For now, thank you very much for assembling all those samples and links! I'm going to recommend your 80s post for sure. Beckoning Chasm. Interesting gathering of styles, fonts, graphics Thomas Bear. When I click on any of the links for Text Effects, it just jumps back to the top of the page.
The only movies I could watch were from bootlegged VHS cassettes. By the age of 12 I think I had seen over movies :- The 80s and early 90s were my childhood years, so this is also why I look back with nostalgia. Thank you! I am really fascinated by the 80s, I don't just say that. I think you can easily write books about the 80s and for sure I will want to come back to it. There are so many things that I didn't cover in here. I've recently read a lot about the death of disco and the birth of house music, Memphis group design, synthesizers, etc.
There a lot of movies that I didn't cover in this article like The Terminator , Die Hard , The Neverending Story , War Games that are really important too for the foundation of the 80s culture. Maybe I will even come back to this article and extend it, so check back soon :- reply. Thanks Su! I tried not to leave anything out :- Glad you enjoyed this! I click the link and it sends me to the part on the page for Tron. Come with open type feature with a lot of alternates and end swash, its help you to make great lettering.
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