Future Typo
Evolving Animated Typography Since 1996.
Future Typo is a long-term, practice-based design research project investigating how typography can evolve from static signs into motion, object, space, and experience. Founded by designer Jan Tomas, the project explores how letterforms can operate through movement, three-dimensional form, digital environments, and spatial systems.
What began as experimental typefaces for new media in 1996 evolved into Digimoon in 2001 and later, in 2009, into Future Typo 1, one of the first fully realized 3D typeface systems designed specifically for motion and spatial transformation. Since then, Future Typo has expanded into a multidimensional design platform where typography becomes structure, surface, presence, and environment.
Here, letters are not static signs. They are constructed as spatial systems. Designed to rotate, transform, and evolve, each form exists between language and sculpture.
Animated typography is the core language of the project. Through rhythm, light, material, and transformation, letterforms reveal their inner architecture and unfold as dynamic form. Sculptural works capture typographic gestures in space, often containing hidden or concealed letter structures derived from the proprietary Future Typo typeface systems.
The research develops through iterative experiments in animation, 3D form, digital sculpture, spatial composition, sound, material studies, interaction, and emerging technologies. Each work tests how far a letter can transform while retaining a relationship to language, recognition, and visual communication.
The project extends beyond the screen into digital editions, collectible formats, interior and architectural visualizations, physical sculpture, spatial installations, and interactive publishing. Across all media, Future Typo maintains a consistent research focus: how typography can move beyond reading and become an experience of form, motion, space, and perception.
Letters are not only signs to be read. They are forms through which we imagine, remember, and communicate. This human dimension remains central to Future Typo, connecting the evolution of typographic form with perception, memory, and human experience.
Future Typo has received international recognition and has been presented through exhibitions, publications, and lectures, contributing to contemporary discourse in type design, motion design, spatial communication, and visual culture.
Typography here is not only read. It is experienced.