{"id":24557,"date":"2020-09-23T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24557"},"modified":"2020-10-01T07:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:52:04","slug":"the-typography-of-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/23\/the-typography-of-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"The Typography of Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1758,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/typesetinthefuture.com\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/17\\\/startrek&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251119132613\\\/https:\\\/\\\/typesetinthefuture.com\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/17\\\/startrek\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 08:45:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 12:18:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 12:18:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/typesetinthefuture.com\/2020\/08\/17\/startrek\/\">Typeset in the Future: Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  If you\u2019re a fan of Star Trek: The Original Series, you might be expecting to see the font from its opening titles in Star Trek: The Motion Picture too. This font was (perhaps unsurprisingly) called Star Trek\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>  The Star Trek font also appeared in a non-italic version, to introduce William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy to 1960s TV audiences. Sadly, this is where the good news ends. When The Original Series returned for a second season, it added DeForest Kelley (Dr. \u201cBones\u201d McCoy) as a second \u201cALSO STARRING\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>  The problem here is obvious, isn\u2019t it? Unlike the Es in \u201cSHATNER\u201d and \u201cLEONARD,\u201d the ones in \u201cDEFOREST KELLEY\u201d have straight corners, not curved ones.<\/p>\n<p>  Alas, The Original Series\u2019s inconsistent typography did not survive the stylistic leap into the 1970s. To make up for it, The Motion Picture\u2019s title card introduces a new font, with some of the curviest Es known to sci-fi. It also follows an emerging seventies trend: Movie names beginning with STAR must have long trailing lines on the opening S.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typeset in the Future: Star Trek: The Motion Picture If you\u2019re a fan of Star Trek: The Original Series, you might be expecting to see the font from its opening titles in Star Trek: The Motion Picture too. This font was (perhaps unsurprisingly) called Star Trek\u2026. The Star Trek font also appeared in a non-italic &#8230; <a title=\"The Typography of Star Trek\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/23\/the-typography-of-star-trek\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Typography of Star Trek\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,2047],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}