No sooner do I post that than I start messing with characters in the Private Use Area of my dev font. Basically if a character is consistently different, as in the periods in Jedi being flatter than the periods in Star Wars, I can see some value in making a custom alternate form of the character. And I guess you could also make them for the damaged characters like I mentioned earlier… but they’d only really have value for re-creating the theatrical subtitles, which we already have in high-quality graphical form, so IMO using PUA characters is a convoluted way of getting to the same result. The flatter periods have value in creating new text using the subtitle font, damaged forms not so much.

Also, FWIW, after reviewing it for a bit, it looks to me like the character spacing in Jedi is very regular, and easily reproduced fairly closely with a font. Star Wars looks to be a lot more haphazard, and may always be a manual job to match convincingly. For my purposes, I’ll just match Jedi and that’s good enough for me.