Comments on: Adventures in Font Matching: More of Joss Whedon’s Firefly

By: RickMacMerc

RickMacMerc — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:46:53 +0000

I think the 7 characters in that sample are most likely derived from a typeface like Agency FB Extended Black. The A's look like the Cyrillic "De", the L and T have probably just been altered to interlock and look more futuristic, The R is almost exactly like Agency FB Extended Black and the S actually looks like it has been messed with (note the slightly notched spot where a corner doesn't quite line up)

By: patv

patv — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:38:34 +0000

How about this “Train Job” ALTRANS logo ?
http://www.seansgallery.com/newpics/firefly/train/engine_11.jpg

By: RickMacMerc

RickMacMerc — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:48:07 +0000

Sorry, no help here either. Good luck on your search.

By: manny

manny — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:35:03 +0000

Hi!, and thanx for responding. LoL..My sincere apologies for the bad links..let me re try without putting those img brackets. I ran these on the browser windows the link works. In case they don’t its the chinese/Jap looking characters you see on Dells AW PCs starting 2007 and up.

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff290/instantmartians/1a-1.jpg

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff290/instantmartians/2a-1.jpg

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff290/instantmartians/4a.jpg

They look identical to the Alienware and some used in Farscape as well.

I know that Tom Hall of Commander Keen fame in the eighties had nice set like this too and were free.
But DellAW seem to to really make prolific use of the on their hardware, but I can’t tell who owns what. In fact.Dell lists its designers as a selling point except for that particular design using the letters in question.

Can you help shed any light on this as I keep hitting a brick wall finding the designers for the Serenity and the AW.

Highest Regards

Manny

By: RickMacMerc

RickMacMerc — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:52:21 +0000

The images you supplied with your comment were dead links and so the comment was trashed and unanswered.

By: manny

manny — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:53:07 +0000

I have tried since last year to get an answer to my last comment on the serenity alien fonts I posted yesterday with images of same. The ones that are almost identical to Alienwares/
Can you tell me what the history of these fonts are . and where I can get them. ..
Thanx

By: scarletshimmer (Kerrie Holland)

scarletshimmer (Kerrie Holland) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:21:53 +0000

@mamee_kins http://tinyurl.com/yct4dv6 scroll down the page

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:32:22 +0000

I wouldn’t have guessed; the small caps give it a completely different feel. Thanks!

By: RickMacMerc

RickMacMerc — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:13:43 +0000

I assume you mean this: It's the same typeface as on the Operatives screen mentioned above: Domestos Serif only it is not the Italic version and it has been set to small caps in whatever graphics program the production company used.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:52:05 +0000

Nice work! This kind of attention to detail always gives me the warm fuzzies. Like perfectionist craftsmanship, it’s too rare these days.

Do you have a match for the small-caps font on Mr Universe’s backup broadwave system? At 01:40:13 in the movie.