Something I've been working on for a little while – a ‘missing page’ from the classic Franz Joseph technical manual detailing the new TOS-era Stargazer made for #StarTrekPicard by @BuckAdmiral
One deficiency of my page is that the font I used wasn't a great match to the original Joseph drawings. Thanks to @DewlineO for pointing out this font based on the exact stencil used! It has some kerning issues but is still a huge improvement. dafont.com/schnaubelt.fon…
Thanks to @MikeJF for pointing out the really nice Routed Gothic typeface! See, this is why I don't bother to do any research myself 😅 webonastick.com/fonts/routed-g…
While a much nicer font, Routed Gothic is at first glance not as suitable as Schnaubelt. However neither are a perfect match when you start to look closer.
If I want to get REALLY obsessive however, I can bolden RG up slightly with a grungy outline to simulate ink bleed… 😶
It’s been interesting looking through old architecture/draughtsmanship books for retro tech manual inspiration. I’m itching to get myself a drawing board now, tho I know it’ll never see any real use. 😅
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They seem to have two differently colour balanced sets of photos. I think these were more dimly lit to show the lighting. I'm not complaining though, it's just great to see quality images!
I deleted this post because, embarrassingly, it turns out to be a fake. 😐 Not that something like this matters in the big scheme of things, but without any history it's just a rather naff logo that I'd rather not leave up without context. Thanks to @GeekFilter for the heads-up.
IMO, the best Star Trek uniforms are the simple ones. No need to overdo things.
My personal favourite uniforms might be the standard ones from Beyond. And you might assume that I hate the field jacket as it features so many of the design tropes I parodied in my picture, but oddly enough I quite like it! I contain multitudes. 😅
How do you know if someone is a monster maroon fan?
Don't worry, they'll tell you.
1991 gave us The Undiscovered Country and TNG seasons 4 and 5. What a great vintage.
Those are my vector recreations of the 1991 logo. I also made this trading card packaging version. #AffinityDesigner
Here's some of the ref material I used. I also tracked down the bevelled font likely used for the '25th Anniversary' text.
Notice how the 25th anniversary logo has completely different colours in each of these photos? I never was confident my palette was in any way accurate because it's different in every pic I found. More blue? More bronze? Beats me! 😅
I adjusted the Lower Decks SNW uniforms to better match the proportions of the originals.
More images for comparison, including a typical cosplay example. The SNW version looks good, I just think a closer match could have been better still. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I’m going to preemptively restrict replies on this one because I can already hear the boring nagging.