TOS Shuttlecraft Font?

[Donny]

Anyone know where I can get the font used for the names of TOS shuttlecrafts? You know, the fancy ultra-retro font used to spell out Galileo? Anyone know? I've looked everywhere. Help!

 

[Vance]

I don't think it was a 'font' really, as more of an artistic script. The way the lettering trails off betrays a non-standard lettering style.

But, I've found that using Edwardian Script gives a close approximation.

 

[ahkyahnan]

A lot of programs will also allow you to convert a piece of text to a vector or other drawing object. You can find the closest font you have, and then modify it to what you need after converting. At least I know Canvas does that.

Mark

 

[Tallguy]

Anyone know where I can get the font used for the names of TOS shuttlecrafts? You know, the fancy ultra-retro font used to spell out Galileo? Anyone know? I've looked everywhere. Help!

Are you looking to make Galileo or your own ship name? If it's Galileo I'd just take a grab of a screen shot or even some of the various G blueprints. If it's your own then freehand it while looking at the G (or some of the other ships in TAS) for reference.

 

[Forbin]

And remember, there's nothing at all canon that says any shuttle except the Galileo used that font. The names may have been hand-painted on each shuttle in the fleet by a different crewman. They may not all have even had names.

 

[Vance]

Actually, not really true, particularly now (TOS-R). The other shuttles shown all had very similar lettering.

 

[Forbin]

TOS-R is not cannon.

I think of the name as nose-art on military aircraft, and nose art was always hand-painted in no particular font.

 

[Vance]

TOS-R is not cannon

No, but it is canon - in so far as TOS-R is concerned.

I think of the name as nose-art on military aircraft, and nose art was always hand-painted in no particular font.

I tend to think that the hangar crews of each starship (with a hangar equipped, natch) had say in the designations of the shuttles, and painted the names on them themselves.

 

[Forbin]

I tend to think that the hangar crews of each starship (with a hangar equipped, natch) had say in the designations of the shuttles, and painted the names on them themselves.

Logical. It was usually the pilot or ground crew who come up with a plane's name.

It may also be captain's discression, say, to assign a theme to the naming. Enterprise's shuttles were all named for explorers, for instance. That may have been Kirk's order, or Starfleet's requirement, or even just a whim of the hangar deck crew.

 

[ahkyahnan]

And remember, there's nothing at all canon that says any shuttle except the Galileo used that font.

IIRC, the Galileo II used the same font.

Mark

 

[Timo]

...No doubt all painted by the same deckhand.

Enterprise's shuttles were all named for explorers, for instance.

(Galileo was an explorer?)

I might go for a scheme where the ship had something like eight auxiliary craft, and each had a vaguely "studying the unknown" type name where the initial corresponded to the number: Galileo for shuttle 7, Columbus for shuttle 3, possibly Aristarchus or Armstrong for shuttle 1, and so forth. (TAS doesn't support that any more, tho.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Forbin]

Yes Galileo was an explorer. He explored things farther away than anybody in any ship of the time.

 

[Scifi_Shipyards]

Sorry for the necro post, but in case anyone might find this useful, the font is called Brush Script MT. If it's not exactly that font, it's a very VERY close approximation.

 

[137th Gebirg]

So, it looks like the Galileo shuttle from TFF used the same font (or at least, the same textual style) as its TOS predecessor:


In the same film, we also see the large 1:1 scale shuttle mock-up painted with "Copernicus" livery, also ostensibly in the same fancy script font:


There was also the Hawking in GEN, but too small to make out the letters:


Then there's also the fleet of different shuttle types the Enterprise was carrying in TAS, that all seemed to use the same script.

And yes, TAS is fucking canon!

 

[evilchumlee]

Star Trek Online... not canon of course... just featured a shuttlecraft "Blass" with similar font...