Font Freak

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Alvin Plummer

So then, we all know that Optima was the font for Classic Traveller, with the text in Univers 55.

But my initial exposure to the Traveller universe was with the MegaTraveller material: that edition’s glorious art has never been surpassed.  I couldn’t find that font very easily… until I came across URW Globe Over Weight OT Std – as part of the Globe family of fonts.

Good to see an old friend again.

(And once again, the power of the Internet amazes me! It took about two hours of searching to resolve that 20-year-old mystery… )

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2 Responses to Font Freak

  1. Don McKinney says:
    November 19, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Marc Miller pointed this out to me, and I thought I’d contribute my notes on the topic… For MegaTraveller, I’ve had good success with GlobeGothic MN…
    Interior: Optima for Chapter Titles
    Body Copy in Helvetica (Adobe Helvetica Std Roman), could be cheap with Arial

  2. Alvin Plummer says:
    November 19, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    Thanks for the tip: I’ll poke around to see….

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