[Goldfinger]

Could anybody tell me the name of the font used in this ad ? It's on the tip of my tongue but I can't put a name on it.

http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/commons/skipink.jpg

thx

[subego]

Crap.

"Euro" something.

They used it on Enterprise B through D.

Edit: Eurostile?

[Dakar V]

Yes, Eurostile.

[Oisín]

Looks like a slightly modified version of it to me. The descender in the g, for instance, is shorter than in Eurostile. Or perhaps that’s just due to the artefacting in the picture.

[subego]

I still gots it!



As long as "it" is more than 20 years old.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

Looks like a slightly modified version of it to me. The descender in the g, for instance, is shorter than in Eurostile. Or perhaps that’s just due to the artefacting in the picture.

It looks like they manipulated the width to something slightly less than 100%.

[ajprice]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

It looks like they manipulated the width to something slightly less than 100%.

Or used Eurostile Condensed



To me, that looks about as close as you will get.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by ajprice 

Or used Eurostile Condensed

I'm well aware of the available styles. I say Eurostile as a cover-all type of name. I proposed a manual change to width because, like Oisin, it doesn't look quite right (smooth, that is).

[ghporter]

Star Trek used Microgramma, not Eurostile, though they're very similar.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Star Trek used Microgramma, not Eurostile, though they're very similar.

I did not know that. [/carson]

[- - e r i k - -]

For future reference:

http://www.whatthefont.com

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

I did not know that. [/carson]

From your sig picture, you're a gamer. One of the earliest RPGs to be marketed was "Star Fleet Battles" (originally by Task Force Games, now by Armadillo Design Bureau), and knowing EVERYTHING about the Star Trek universe was pretty much essential to success. Ya gotta know this stuff when you're putting together your miniatures, ya know.

[Andrew Stephens]

Yeah the original Next Gen font was Microgamma. I used to work in character licensing and churned out stacks of TOS and NG back packs etc. We had to have all the correct fontage etc. I still have the TOS font on my mac somewhere I'm sure. Spent many a happy afternoon knocking up transporter effects in photoshop for packaging. Ah the memories!

[subego]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Star Trek used Microgramma, not Eurostile, though they're very similar.

My it has been revoked.

[Jawbone54]

Mmmmmm...fonts...

I had thought the Enterprise font was Eurostile for a long, long time. Way to shatter years of deeply-held beliefs, ghporter.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

Mmmmmm...fonts...

I had thought the Enterprise font was Eurostile for a long, long time. Way to shatter years of deeply-held beliefs, ghporter.

And he did it with one short, direct sentence. It's an ugly, powerful monster, we've created.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

Mmmmmm...fonts...

I had thought the Enterprise font was Eurostile for a long, long time. Way to shatter years of deeply-held beliefs, ghporter.

Gee, sorry to crash those dreams, guy. But having been a Trek fan from way back when they hadn't even made one movie, I sort of soaked up all sorts of stuff about it.