Okay, last thread spam regarding fonts I haven’t even released yet. But seriously, they’re coming.

The final deal is that I did a separate font for Star Wars and Jedi, as I felt the small differences were better handled that way. The Jedi font produces results that are extremely close to the actual theatrical subs. Star Wars theatrical subs, on the other hand, have inconsistent letter-forms and inconsistent spacing (the size of the hole in the lowercase “e” seems all over the map, as does the width of the character itself, for example), so I just had to pick what I felt looks nice and run with it. I did use the Private Use Area of the fonts to handle characters that were variable based on some predictable factor (different spacing around punctuation depending on neighboring characters), but I didn’t do anything to handle characters that changed unpredictably, and the default characters that aren’t in the Private Use Area use sane values that still look nice under any circumstances, just not always theatrically accurate. I didn’t use kerning tables at all because my subtitling software, like lots of software, ignores them.

Also, the references I’m using for Star Wars aren’t quite as nice as the ones I used for Jedi (they were 35mm scans registered over the Blu-ray frames for placement and proportions, but the Jedi reference was made by Harmy, and the Star Wars one by me). As such, letter and spacing proportions on my Star Wars reference were likely a little off, so I was very conservative with changes for that font. I might go back and try to do a better match once I get a better reference.

Either way, the Star Wars font produces results that are easily distinguished from the theatrical subs in a side-by-side comparison, but seem pretty plausible for my purposes, where side-by-side isn’t an issue. The Jedi font looks great for any purpose though, IMO.