Would you be so kind as to tell me which font you're using? I've got something similar, but it's a fan-designed font that doesn't work well at small sizes...
Just for comparison, here's a TOS-style map I did a few months back, in anticipation of someone doing a TOS-era "You're the Admiral!" game at some point. I ended up using the TUC movie font, which looks a little out of place, but it's okay. For now, anyway. (That's why I'd like something better. )
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However it's a little chaotic, even for a DCARS display. Try pulling things a little closer together, lineing up the buttons with the text and maybe expanding the map a little.
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The font is Impact. Yes. Standard, oh-please-god-why-do-people-use-it, Microsoft Impact. Part of the Windows fonts, IIRC. I did change the spacing a bit though (in CorelDraw, word-spacing to 150% and character spacing to 25, IIRC). And the colors are blue, red, Kentucky Green and yellow + one ctrl+click of red.
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Impact, eh? I've got that... it's not a great font, but it actually looks okay there. I'll see what I can do with it.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: (That's why I'd like something better. )
That reminds me, I was going to post this for you ages ago, but I lost track of the thread and got distracted by something else. Better late than never.
quote:Originally posted by Reverend: That reminds me, I was going to post this for you ages ago, but I lost track of the thread and got distracted by something else. Better late than never.
Um... ummm... holy cow! Now THAT'S a nice chart there!
Damn, now I'll have to rework mine all over again...
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I must say, you all are showing exquisite taste by using my ships!
Here's the font suggested by Geoff Mandel. It's called Alternate Gothic. I have a Type I Mac font that came bundled with CorelDraw, but I usually use TrueType. I've found some vendors from whom you can purchase this font, but would rather find a free version somewhere...
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quote:Originally posted by Masao: I must say, you all are showing exquisite taste by using my ships!
Hey, one of mine is in there too!
quote:Here's the font suggested by Geoff Mandel. It's called Alternate Gothic. I have a Type I Mac font that came bundled with CorelDraw, but I usually use TrueType. I've found some vendors from whom you can purchase this font, but would rather find a free version somewhere...
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It's a little redundant now, but I knocked this together to show the differences in the fonts. Bear in mind that I've altered the letter spacing to mor closely match the original.
Some notes on Minuteman's map:-
If you make the grid 20x20 squares then you won't need a pixel-to-light year scale bar.
Assuming you're using Mandel's star charts as reference then you might have missed the fact that the Azure nebula does cross the Klingon/Federation border. Which is probably why Sulu attempted to use it to sneak across the border and why Kang was in there waiting.
I take it that you're assuming that the Epsilon monitoring stations are fairly new at the time of TMP and was not around during the TOS-era? Since once again Mandel's charts has #10 sat near the nebula (probably to keep an eye on the border) and I see you didn't include it on your map.
quote: LOL... "U.S.S. Lillian Sloane". Nice.
I'm assuming that history still records her as being Zeph's co-pilot, if not I'm sure she flew in other flights and contributed enough to humanity to desereve some recognition. Plus we very rarely see any ships named after women...which is a little strange when you consider that a crew seams to usually refer to their ship as "her".
P.S. I'm pretty sure that I got the sector & quadrant numbers correct, going by the Starcharts' system that is. (very handy book that, incase you didn't notice )
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