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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] I love your ship, Lobe, but I have one admittedly minor quibble.. the font of the registry. I'm a graphics major, so i take text and fonts pretty seriously, but at the same time i realize that pretty much no one else does, so its not a big deal. You see, the text on TOS ships (and ENT, thankfully) is a Navy font (most people use a variant called LongBeach) but the origin is that it is the actual typeface used by the US Navy from WWII on on their ships, and also AF planes. Roddenberry and Jefferies, being Naval and Aviation buffs, wanted it like that. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines, either AMT ERTL or another licensee of Trek started using a thinner thicker font, the computer version is Deusex. Thats the one you have there, although some Enterprising fan called it TOS Hull and offered it on his page. I remember being very upset because two of my TOS models i built as a lad used it (the 3 ship Fed-Kli-Rom set and also my large constitution). I know that several of the boys around here have the correct font for their 3d models and also their 2d graphics. it really helps the look of the ship. OK, its not that important at all. BTW, this font is still exclusively used by Star Fleet Battles, because they like to be different. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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