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Taldrenites => Starfleet Command Models => Topic started by: Starfox1701 on October 18, 2010, 07:21:03 pm
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I'm looking for a good font for doing TMP Fed ship registries. Does any one have one?
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http://downloads.outpost10f.com/font.html
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Cool thanks one more thing how do you get the outlin a different color then the inside letter?
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That is an awesome list. In addition, Eurostile is a pretty well-known font that is very Trek-looking -- they used it in Franz Joseph's 1970s technical manual and they even used it in the SFC1/SFC2 manuals!
This has a few laughs about the font (at Trekkie expense unfortunately): http://typophile.com/node/49464
(http://www.luth.no/images/products/cat1722.0837_Eurostile_Next_400.gif)
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Cool thanks one more thing how do you get the outlin a different color then the inside letter?
With good software there might be a fancy way to do it, but I would just type the text twice, once in each color, then paste the black letter over the red letter.
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Depending on what size you make your font, in photoshop you can actually get away with using an red inside stroke with a pre-outlined font. Bearing that you can mess with the outer glow, but I've never gotten it to look right.
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Thanks guys ;D FoaS_XC the stroke works great for smaller characters.
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Hi Starfox,
the best font I have found for TMP fonts is: http://www.fonts2u.com/airborne.font
For your outline question, im assuming you are referring to TNG type fonts ? Write them nice and big in photoshop or PSP etc. really big :crazy2:. Write them in a dark red font. once your happy, rasterize the font,. Then select the inner parts of the font and fill in black. 8)
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Thanks man
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Quick and fairly simple way I've done it in the past..I use PSP 7, and am working from quick edits on Mackie's old Davids refit, so my blanks aren't as clean as they usually are.
a) do up your blank, and then do a vector based circle to match where your registry needs to go. Then vector edit to remove half the circle and reverse path to put the registry on the right side. (image 2 and 3). Now put in your text.. if you're doing the outline, go for a maroon-ish type colour, with an inside colour that matches a hull colour. If the inside black registry, then fill is black, and stroke matches your hull colour.
b) Hide your ellipse, and duplicate your layer. Now, change the colours of the duplicate layer to be the other part you need, black inner or red outer. Unhide and move your duplicated ellipse and resize your registry until you're aligned on your original. Rehide your ellipse. Play with things until you get something similar to image5. Kerning is your friend here to get a clean looking registry.
c) Registry is done, on to the next one! (image6). Save your blank and hang on to it for years... it'll help you with similar textures in the past. ;)
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I hate to say it, alec, but that's not quite the right font. Try Starfleet Extended, i think its called.
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whats Kerning?
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Kerning is the space between each characterl
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I can't help thinking that I'm missing somthing from your explanation atheorhaven. (scatches head and feels dumb)
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I hate to say it, alec, but that's not quite the right font. Try Starfleet Extended, i think its called.
Yup, I know.. I'd used Eurostile because I wasn't at home. For illustration and demo purposes, the font was irrelevant, the goal was to show the process. :)
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I can't help thinking that I'm missing somthing from your explanation atheorhaven. (scatches head and feels dumb)
Willing to help.. what doesn't make sense to you? :)
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Hide your ellipse
Well after sleep and coffee this is the only part I still don't get. I thought you mad a vector arc out of the circle. Where did the ellipse come from or am i being to literal :-[
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Hide your ellipse
Well after sleep and coffee this is the only part I still don't get. I thought you mad a vector arc out of the circle. Where did the ellipse come from or am i being to literal :-[
It's the same... when I chopped the half off the circle, PSP is calling it an ellipse. Which makes sense, because you can adjust all the parts to match your target line/areas. :)
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Hide your ellipse
Well after sleep and coffee this is the only part I still don't get. I thought you mad a vector arc out of the circle. Where did the ellipse come from or am i being to literal :-[
Doesn't matter what you use to get the text to arch, call it a ray, arch, circle whatever...
What is important is that you do it as a vector, there is a edit icon that will be lit in the tool bar when you select the vector and allow you to turn it invisible. the tool is also able to change sizes line width spacing and color, but it only works on vectors
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This all keeps the leters from getting warped like the normal text arc maker?
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This all keeps the leters from getting warped like the normal text arc maker?
Does for me on PSP 7, although the text will form to the arc/ellipse. That can be good and bad depending on how well you match your line. ;)
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Wil definetly have to look at that.