Anything constructed can be taken apart again, and the pieces reused to make new things. Lego pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. The company’s flagship product, Lego, consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. As of 2021, Lego was the largest toy company in the world. Lego (/ˈlɛɡoʊ/ LEG-oh, Danish: stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. This article was updated and corrected on December 20, with contributions by Ness Steadman, Richard Palermo, and Stephen Coles.Legothick by unknown is a font based on the Lego logo. Star Wars fans are a passionate bunch, and you are guaranteed to always find a bigger geek than yourself. And if just like me you are intrigued by typography in science fiction movies, go over to Typeset In The Future, Dave Addey’s excellent blog dedicated to fonts in sci-fi. The poster itself will definitely be discussed in the January 2016 edition of ScreenFonts.įor more Star Wars-related typographic goodness, read about the history of Suzy Rice’s original Star Wars logo design on Episode Nothing, and about the little-known pre-release version by Joe Johnston on Fonts In Use.
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It is about time someone revisited ITC’s advertising classics and restored them to their original glory.Īs for the movie itself – don’t spoil it for me! – I cannot wait to watch it to see if there are any other typographic treasures to be discovered. Sadly almost none of those extras made it to digital. This allowed designers to fine-tune the lock-up until it was just right. Because most ITC fonts from that era were display faces, they were decked out with numerous alternate glyphs for maximum versatility. Several characters are different – the Elsner+Flake family is the only one to have the correct ‘t’ with a tail, but no digital version features the double-storey ‘a’, the ‘e’ with slanted crossbar, nor the ‘f’ with elongated tail. I applied -125 negative kerning to neatly tuck the elipsis underneath the arm of the ‘y’, and added +35 to the right side of the ‘t’ to detach it from the ‘i’.
I tried to emulate the original tagline as well as I could using the ITC Serif Regular font, with -75 negative tracking for that typical 70s ‘tight but not touching’ look. © 1983 Lucasfilm – Title on the original Star Wars: Return of The Jedi one sheet – Click the image to see the complete poster on IMPAwards. The tagline was probably hand-lettered in a heavy sans serif style based on the Star Wars logo the credits are set in the ITC Avant Garde® Gothic typeface, another ’70s stalwart. The somewhat awkward shapes of the ‘R’ and the two ‘S’s make it seem as if they were specifically drawn for this purpose, because they connect seamlessly to the lines of the frame. On this poster it is integrated into a border running around the movie title. Originally designed by Suzy Rice, the logo was revised by Joe Johnston, and then outfitted with a new ‘W’ by Rice again. After it already had been featured at the beginning of the opening crawl and on the teaser poster for the first movie, the classic Star Wars logo finally shows up on the main theatrical poster – again with an illustration by Tom Jung. © 1980 Lucasfilm – Tagline on the original Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back one sheet – Click the image to see the complete poster on IMPAwards.īy the time the Empire strikes back in 1980, Antonio DiSpigna’s geometric glyphic sans has disappeared from the promotional materials. While the logo was custom-drawn by Ralph McQuarrie in a blocky sans serif mimicking the perspective of the opening crawl, the tagline and credits were set in ITC Serif Gothic. Those famous words also found their way on the poster for the original 1977 movie (which revisionist young punks insist on calling Episode IV – A New Hope) with classic artwork by Tom Jung. The sight of the yellow text – set in the Trade Gothic® typeface – disappearing into the far reaches of space is guaranteed to send shivers along the spine of any self-respecting sci fi aficionado (unless they’re a Trekkie of course). It precedes the iconic opening crawl at the beginning of the epic space opera: an introduction that sets the story for each film. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” This line – one of the most well-known sentences in pop culture – has left an indelible mark in our collective consciousness.
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