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 I made that almost 15 years ago. I continued to construct various logos in the style of Star Wars, mostly using fonts that were available at the time. There’s a bunch, but the one that seemed the best to me was called “Astro” by an old friend, David Occhino. I used it a lot to “make” logos, stretching, squashing, elongating letters to make ligatures. You kind of have to with a font like this, because it’s never “just a font,” it’s a tool. I’m pretty picky about album art in my digital music library, and that is a lot of what spurs the need for a good typographic solution. A lot of the time, that exists. Trajan (the classic ‘epic movie’ typeface) used for the prequels was redone years ago with more weights, and even a sans version. Albertus got a revival with Albertus Nova, which includes lowercase. And though the chunky-bold Star Wars logo style has been attempted many times, they all reflect different things. I won’t get into the detail but almost every font that exists for the logo style tries to emulate one aspect of the logo. Maybe one font focuses on the 1997 re-release. Or the 2017 “Solo” film. The truth is, over the years, every time this style was used officially, the letters used were clearly made for that release alone. The shape of the S, the width of the letters. They’re never quite the same when you put them side by side. Take the original 1977 and put it against the prequels’ version. Of course, these were hand-made. There’s imperfections if you look closely. It’s also internally inconsistent. Look at the stems of different characters. The stem of the R is much thicker than the stem of the T. Look how the whole logo bows. See how the top of the last S is narrower than the bottom of the S? None of these things point to it being wrong, but it’s indicative to me that these titles were never made with a “font” in mind. So if you emulate just one part, you miss the whole picture. |
There’s a *lot* to talk about with regards to this font, so over the next week or so, I wanna do that.
For as long as I’ve been making icons and wallpapers, I’ve been drawing Star Wars stuff. One of the wallpapers I made became more popular than it ever had the right to, ending up on so many fan-made and rumor-driven videos on YouTube. It’s even on Rotten Tomatoes for some reason as the actual logo for the Star Wars saga.
Maybe you’ve seen it. It’s a weirdo.