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Post #568783

Author
EdFarmer
Parent topic
Recreating "A long time ago" (Released)
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Date created
7-Mar-2012, 8:24 AM

DavidBrennan, The project right now is simply to replicate the "A long time ago" text as a graphic. Of course, down the road it would be nice to build onto that, but that's not something I'm working on right now (directly, anyway). So sorry if I didn't make sense on that... a font is something I would definitely like to see come from this eventually, but not something I'm doing right now.

If you're looking for a font for writing text, from what I've found, I agree with Laserschwert on the two he mentioned. But I think Trade Gothic definitely seems closest. If all you need is the "A long time ago" screen, I could send you what I have, but it's pretty rough right now, and I'm not sure it would be much better than Trade Gothic. Click on this for a comparison:

If you can't read the text on the left, it is (from top to bottom): News Gothic, Trade Gothic, Harmy's cleaned original, Mine, Franklin Gothic Book. And here's another view or two (last 3 images at the end of the album are just at different zoom levels).

Erikstormtrooper, I don't know much about creating fonts, and it's not something I'm working on right now, but when I get there, I will probably need help with the font thing.

RU.08, Yeah... I noticed in a couple threads people were having a hard time with the subs. I haven't looked into it much, since I'm just doing the ALTA right now, but is the sub text the same as the ALTA text, just bolder?

Actually, I remember when looking through some of those subtitle threads, someone came up with a really great and very close match. Went to find it in my bookmarks to link here... turns out it was you! :D

Also, for subs, is a graphic overlay a no-no? Does it need to be a font and rendered by script? I didn't know if a script can control the scaling of a vector graphic.