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Post #1211854

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CatBus
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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Date created
28-May-2018, 12:09 AM

BrightestDayFan2814 said:

If Star Wars OOT subtitles Was Created By Project Threepio, I’ll Prove That Star Wars OOT subtitles Was Trade Gothic Bold or Trade Gothic Bold Condensed #20

Not sure how to parse that, but the font used for the Greedo/Jabba subs was definitely in the Trade Gothic/Franklin Gothic/News Gothic family as you said. But it wasn’t a digital font, so you can’t get an exact match today as a digital font. Project Threepio does attempt to make an approximation of this font available in digital form, and it is derived from the Trade Gothic/Franklin Gothic/News Gothic family. The trick is, there are small differences from scene to scene in the font (particularly kerning, which was done by hand), so you actually can’t make a digital font that matches every subtitle in the OOT. Project Threepio’s fonts attempt to find a middle-of-the road approximation that matches the middle ideal between all these differences. You’re welcome to create a better approximation – mine’s certainly not perfect, but it’s close enough for the purposes of this project. I feel the Project Threepio-provided fonts are better than both Trade Gothic Bold and Trade Gothic Bold Condensed #20, but at some point “better” is subjective.