Setting your sights on our typographic future isn’t the easiest of tasks, and we often ascribe seer-like powers to those who can bring greater meaning to the weight of how we say what we say.
The typography experts at Monotype have released their 2025 Trends Report. However, rather than identify current and potential trends, Monotype wants to act as a typographic oracle that looks ahead while considering the larger cultural forces shaping the present. Throughout the rest of the year, Monotype will continue exploring these profound themes through a series of activations to continue the conversation about type and the world around us.
“An oracle tries to imagine what the future will be like based on the information at hand. In our previous trends reports, we spent a lot of time looking at what had happened in the past year or year and a half. Still, we felt that we were more prone in that mode to question less what the motivations behind the work were. You would only eventually get to a place where you were looking at how typography is a force unto itself in culture,” says Charles Nix, senior executive director at Monotype. “We all know collectively that there are some very pressing issues at hand and some very large cultural forces that typography can contend with. We have a few examples in the report, but it’s more about creating work throughout this year that will be a direct conversation about those larger cultural issues.”
