Changes: Star Trek fonts

Revision as of 07:06, 5 October 2010

Template:Realworld The following is a list of fonts used in the different Star Trek series categorized by the companies that hold the rights to it.

Horizon font sample

Galaxy font sample

Millennium font sample

Sonic font sample

Swiss 911 Ultra Compressed font sample

There were at least two Li'l Bits packages released by Bitstream, one for The Original Series and a second for fonts from The Next Generation.

Star Trek BT: is the font with the original lettering from TOS and TAS; recently renamed to Horizon.
Star Trek Film BT: has the lettering used in the movies and in the titles for DS9 and VOY; recently renamed to Galaxy.
Star Trek Pi BT: contains the insignia from TOS plus the Klingon logo on lowercase a-d and ten Klingon letters on e-n
Starfleet Bold Extended BT: the font with letters used on the hull of Starfleet vessels; recently renamed to Millennium.
Venetian 301: part of the Li'l Bits TOS package; might have been in use for displays in TOS.
Square 721 Condensed: part of the Li'l Bits TOS package.
StarTrek Next Generation
StarTrek Gen
Crillee Italic
Swiss 911 Ultra Compressed: the font used for LCARS displays.
Transitional 521
StarTrek Next Pi

Changeling: is the typeface used primarily throughout computer screens in Star Trek (film).

With the game Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard by MicroProse, the company offered a couple of Klingon-like fonts from the game:

MPS Klingon: font with Latin letters in a shape similar to the Klingon letters
KlingonDagger: all Latin font that shares some shapes of Klingon letters
New Klingon Light: a collection of Klingon letters, most of them are different in shape from those used in Star Trek productions

Jefferies Extended font sample

The following is a list of fonts that can be used to achieve lettering as used in the series.

Helvetica Ultra Condensed (only majuscules): a font on which Swiss 911 Ultra compressed is based (which is used for LCARS displays)
Jefferies Extended: this font has the lettering used in Star Trek: Enterprise; this particular font designed by Jeff Yerkey and named in honor of Matt Jefferies

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 ;Helvetica Ultra Condensed (only majuscules): a font on which Swiss 911 Ultra compressed is based (which is used for [[LCARS]] displays)
 ;Jefferies Extended: this font has the lettering used in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''; this particular font designed by Jeff Yerkey and named in honor of [[Matt Jefferies]]
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