Classic Trek Font Update - "Roddenberry"

[Vance]

Finally caught up with all my fonts and dramatically updated and reworked my classic Trek font. This one adds the lower-case (based on the old CD font's release), completes the simple character set, cleans up errors.. the whole works. Freeware license.

http://tfvanguard.deviantart.com/art/TTF-Roddenberry-195763636

 

[Kaiser]

Very Nice Font thanks for Posting

 

[TheSeeker]

Hey, that's great! Thanks for sharing!

 

[AJBryant]

Hey, fellow font developing guy!

 

[Vance]

I probably should post the rest of the Trek fonts I've done here too...

Probert - based on the Microgramma lettering used on starships and through various technical manuals...

http://tfvanguard.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d37z46x

Jefferies - based on Star Trek's version of Amarillo, used for the lettering of TOS starships.

http://tfvanguard.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d37i055

Okuda - based on the Okudagrams from TNG and onward

http://tfvanguard.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d373psq

Fontana - based on the old-style Pocket Books lettering for their Star Trek novels.

http://tfvanguard.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d36czbw

Tech Manual - based on the stencil-letting within the original Star Trek technical manual.

http://tfvanguard.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d35lh37

Trek Arrowheads - a ridiculous amount of glyphs based on arrowheads used in Star Trek

http://tfvanguard.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d35ley2

 

[Sean_McCormick]

Great stuff! And i really like the naming scheme.

 

[RedSpar]

Much appreciated Vance! Good fonts like these are a lifesaver.

 

[Bill Morris]

Great job, Vance, and cool font names.

 

[Starship]

Excelent job! Thanks for sharing!
Any chance of an updated TNG set too?

 

[TheSeeker]

Trek Arrowheads kicks ass!

 

[Bill Morris]

About the Okuda font, people who use Truetype with their LCARS graphics generally use Halvetica ultracompressed, which seems to match the shape of most of the LCARS fonts seen onscreen, but the problem with it and all other TrueType fonts that come close is that characters that are round at top and/or bottom fall one pixel short of the boundary.

I don't use TrueType for LCARS, since my LCARS system has its own font drivers, but people who embed fonts using Illustrator, etc. do have a need for an LCARS font that looks like that seen on VOY and DS9 but without the above-mentioned problem.

Mine, not Truetype, are like this:

 

[Vance]

I ran into that when I first worked on the font, but the ascent and descent SHOULD be corrected for that problem now. If anyone still runs into the upper-lower bounds on these, just let me know and I'll hammer it out.

 

[Maurice]

Nice nice.

 

[Kaiser]

Very nice fonts there Vance

 

[Klaus]

+fav

 

[Ptrope]

Love the arrowheads, too! I notice, however, that the line weight of the "w's" in Okuda and Probert is about 10% too much; it seems to only be the w's, though.

 

[Vance]

Love the arrowheads, too! I notice, however, that the line weight of the "w's" in Okuda and Probert is about 10% too much; it seems to only be the w's, though.

They're literally double-Vs, so I probably didn't thin them out a smidge when I narrowed their angle down. Next update I'll take a look at them and reign in the weight by a mark. That should take care of it.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I love that ST novel font.

 

[Solarbaby]

About the Okuda font, people who use Truetype with their LCARS graphics generally use Halvetica ultracompressed, which seems to match the shape of most of the LCARS fonts seen onscreen, but the problem with it and all other TrueType fonts that come close is that characters that are round at top and/or bottom fall one pixel short of the boundary.

I don't use TrueType for LCARS, since my LCARS system has its own font drivers, but people who embed fonts using Illustrator, etc. do have a need for an LCARS font that looks like that seen on VOY and DS9 but without the above-mentioned problem.

Mine, not Truetype, are like this:

I don't understand what this mean. I l have a TTF font called Lcars which looks fine to me

 

[Vance]

Hey, fellow font developing guy!

Hello! So.. what do you have up for me to look at?

Excelent job! Thanks for sharing!
Any chance of an updated TNG set too?

I'm taking a brief break from font-making at the moment, due to updating and, in many cases, redoing the 78 of them that I've made over the years. Gah! I'll probably do the TNG titles in the near future, though - since there's a lot of call for them.

+fav

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