| Cacique Caribe | 25 Jun 2014 7:30 p.m. PST |
Do you print out signs for your spaceship, 15mm SF terrain features and buildings? If so, what FREE font(s) do you prefer? And how do you transfer over the text to the final surface? Thanks, Dan
PS. Here are a few examples, if you need inspiration:
dafont.com/theme.php?cat=303 |
| Cacique Caribe | 25 Jun 2014 8:37 p.m. PST |
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| Trojan Points | 26 Jun 2014 2:30 a.m. PST |
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TheBeast  | 26 Jun 2014 4:59 a.m. PST |
I'm rather fond of the several versions of BSG font. Or is it Sega? ;->= Definitely consider a proper mix of the others for the sci-fi shanty town I hope to get from some small parts bins. It ain't right if it doesn't clash. Doug |
| Rothgar | 26 Jun 2014 5:58 a.m. PST |
Checkbook has always been a favorite. I believe it was used in the old Ogre pocket box editions. |
| Cacique Caribe | 26 Jun 2014 8:38 a.m. PST |
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| No Such Agency | 26 Jun 2014 9:16 a.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 26 Jun 2014 9:32 a.m. PST |
Infinity seems to use the Orbitron font a lot, though it has some issues (O/0 and 1/I/l confusion): fontsc.com/font/orbitron |
| Patrice | 26 Jun 2014 10:00 a.m. PST |
I always liked the mysteriously bilingual police helmets in "The 5th Element". I don't know if such fonts actually exist, but the idea of bilingual signs seems logical and can be done with other fonts.
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| boy wundyr x | 26 Jun 2014 12:55 p.m. PST |
I just downloaded a bunch of them, great thread! My favourite from today was the "Atari Kids" one under the Japanese category. |
| Darkrazor | 26 Jun 2014 2:54 p.m. PST |
If anyone needs a specail order decal I can help. ALPS printer can do white gold silver and foil colours as well. |
| Antonius Block | 26 Jun 2014 11:24 p.m. PST |
I'm a gamer and a graphic designer so this is a subject I enjoy thinking about. I like to use whatever feels logical and fits with the background. Many lettering styles labeled sci-fi on free-font sites or font that appear on things like video games tend to have squarish proportions and have details derived from stencil typefaces or such. However those fonts feel more like symbols for sci-fi as a genre, and of some kind of futuristic otherness than as appropriate letterforms for whatever world is being portrayed. It's the same thing with SF architecture. It seems like octagonal shapes, slated walls or domed structures are used in the same way without considerations of function and so on, just to signal that this is SF. The best use of typography in sci-fi is when it supports the story. Games workshop for instance have used blackletter and distressed classic serif typefaces in many places to support the 40k background, and it works great. This is an interesting blog about some other clichés of SF typography: typesetinthefuture.com |
| TheBeast | 27 Jun 2014 2:15 a.m. PST |
I always liked the mysteriously bilingual police helmets in "The 5th Element". Hasn't the Star Wars Aurebesh font been done in several variations? I think one might be an acceptable proxy. Doug |
| Antonius Block | 27 Jun 2014 5:13 p.m. PST |
You could do something similar with typefaces that have a lot of alternative letterforms. So one set of letterforms could represent the roman alfabet and another set could be some future version of it. Euclid flex from swiss typefaces, Diamonds from HVD or Doctrine or Priori Sans from Virus or something similar could work. They are not free of course. I have also made a typeface that work that way. |
| erraticassassin | 29 Jun 2014 10:45 a.m. PST |
Orbitron, from the League of Moveable Type, is quite nice: link |
| Angel Barracks | 29 Jun 2014 11:58 a.m. PST |
Orbitron was designed so that graphic designers in the future will have some alternative to typefaces like Eurostile or Bank Gothic. If you've ever seen a futuristic sci-fi movie, you have may noticed that all other fonts have been lost or destroyed in the apocalypse that led humans to flee earth. Only those very few geometric typefaces have survived to be used on spaceship exteriors, space station signage, monopolistic corporate branding, uniforms featuring aerodynamic shoulder pads, etc. Of course Orbitron could also be used on the posters for the movies portraying this inevitable future.
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| davebill | 30 Jun 2014 4:18 p.m. PST |
Bilanidin, or Traveller Vilani, is available here link |
| No Such Agency | 02 Jul 2014 4:24 a.m. PST |
@ Antonius Block Rule of Cool supersedes logic, sociology or physics. |
goes beyond the straight line.