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I have come up with an approximation of a frame from the Dr. No title sequence, which I find has aged very well indeed. I had the devil of a time locating close enough fonts. I wrote an imagemagick script - sadly, my Illustrator skills are sub-subpar - which generates the image on a black background raster image 4000x4000px. I will adjust the script replacing black with transparent so I can make myself a t-shirt.
Fonts used are Source Sans Pro Bold for IAN FLEMING’S, Dorado Headline for the D and N, Bert Sans Black for the r, Envisage W01 Regular for the dot, and Soolidium for the (lowercase, embiggened) O. Each large letter, and the dot, have unique point sizes; I suspect the original logo was pasted up by hand. My version is not identical, but I think close enough to pass casual inspection.
The colors and resolution of the source image are low-quality (youtube frame grab) and I don't have access to my DVD version, so I used bog standard imagemagick colors White, Purple, and DarkRed.
With Illustrator you mean? I don't have any Adobe CS suite software... budget is low... I use free open source software tools usually. But if you have how-to tips, I'm all ears, the FOSS equivalent (Inkscape) uses the same general concepts...
https://askubuntu.com/questions/336153/how-to-create-a-png-with-transparent-background-in-inkscape
For fine-tuned control when rasterizing an SVG file, I use the Gnome project's rsvg-convert utility, for example:
I'm going to try Inkscape again, I am super familiar now with this image. I was reading the Inkscape manual yesterday and it seems possible to import individual letters and adjust the vectors manually. I have always been interested in typography and for many years wanted to design a whole font, perhaps this little project will teach me some new skills.
Does anyone know which fonts are used in the Queens Club sign from Dr No?
@PropertyOfALady might know. He's our fonts expert.
Darn. It was worth a try. :)
The capital letters are different enough, but quite a few similarities otherwise.
https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=401&page=1&text=Queen's+Club
If anyone has a 4K version a screencap would be most helpful. Thanks!
Thanks, I will look through those. With a clearer screencap, I should be able to make a custom version from some of those.
Do you guys know what the name of the font is?
Thanks!
Yes, a lot of old German books and newspapers seem to have that kind of genetic Gothic font. You know the books where the footnotes take up more of the page than the actual text itself?
This might indeed be the case. The capital C has a decorative curl dropping below the baseline, which I couldn't find in many other blackletter fonts; the only font I can find with a similar-ish detail, is Blackletter 686, but otherwise it's not very similar to the type used on the sign.
It might also be a font, but one that hasn't got a digital release.
Working out the closest match it's possible to take a similar letter of the font style as an image, no background, lock aspect ratio, and adjust height or width to best overlay the target. And in this case maybe overlay extra lines where needed.
Also this was just a standalone sign. I note some movie posters create their own letter style for which no font existed at the time. Still there are ways to approximate them if a source never created a similar enough doppelgänger for it.
@Red_Snow PM sent.
Thanks mate!