That Starbase 11 wall chart - noe in slide form
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From what I can tell, 196pt was the largest you could get. (Website sates 2.7 inches per letter)
Would it be a font like this:
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Looks like Eurostile Bold to me. But they have trimmed the “1”. Designed in 1962, so it would have been new and fresh at the time.
https://ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-2023/eurostile-bold-font
The “6” in Eurostile has a shorter lower half than the “8”. And yet in “1X31” the lower half looks the same as in the numbers with clear sixes. So I think it is 1631.
https://ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-2023/eurostile-bold-font
The “6” in Eurostile has a shorter lower half than the “8”. And yet in “1X31” the lower half looks the same as in the numbers with clear sixes. So I think it is 1631.
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Eurostyle was used for the end credits in Season 1, so would certainly have been kicking around.
It became a sci-fi staple, and in modified form, was heavily used in the Star Trek movies.
Could equally be the very similar Microgramma (which also has Trek heritage), which has the same feature of the 6 having a fuller, rounder lower half than the 8. At this resolution, it could be why we're struggling to see the slither of daylight in the upper half of the 6.
It became a sci-fi staple, and in modified form, was heavily used in the Star Trek movies.
Could equally be the very similar Microgramma (which also has Trek heritage), which has the same feature of the 6 having a fuller, rounder lower half than the 8. At this resolution, it could be why we're struggling to see the slither of daylight in the upper half of the 6.
I think you are exactly right about that slither of daylight. It is a telltale marker.
I might be misremembering but I think Eurostile was developed by the same artist who developed Microgramma, in order to create something with other widths and weights and a lower case, which I think, Microgramma lacked.
Franz Joseph can be credited with using Microgramma for hull fonts and I think it was Probert who reworked Eurostile bold extended into the hull font used on the refit Enterprise.
I might be misremembering but I think Eurostile was developed by the same artist who developed Microgramma, in order to create something with other widths and weights and a lower case, which I think, Microgramma lacked.
Franz Joseph can be credited with using Microgramma for hull fonts and I think it was Probert who reworked Eurostile bold extended into the hull font used on the refit Enterprise.
