I suspect you'd enjoy Linotype: The Film; I have a movie poster (letterpressed with a Linotype!) signed by the director hanging in my study :)

Now I have to repeat myself. You lucky, lucky bastard! ;) I must get around to watching that movie at some point. Longfingered.

That and having a grandfather who operated his own movable type Heidelberg press out of his garage.

You lucky, lucky bastard! :)

I suspect you'd enjoy Linotype: The Film; I have a movie poster (letterpressed with a Linotype!) signed by the director hanging in my study :)

That and having a grandfather who operated his own movable type Heidelberg press out of his garage.

You lucky, lucky bastard! :)

There's a strong Macintosh legacy among a lot of Bungie fans, for one thing. I'm not saying that explains the interest of most who expressed themselves in this thread, but my interest really began about 30 years ago when I got my first Mac.

Mine, too!

That and having a grandfather who operated his own movable type Heidelberg press out of his garage.

Incidentally, Futura has always been one of my favorite fonts. I used it for headlines at my undergraduate paper when we did a redesign following our first foray into desktop publishing, and for subheds at the first job I had as a paginator coming out of grad school.

Unfortunately, we had some issues with fidelity rendering it at small, subpixel alignments; particularly the italicized version. For the small body and italics caption font, I went with Epoca Pro. That one was authored and hinted specifically for screen display so it worked much nicer at small sizes. The fact that it is narrower and gothic helps separate it from Neue Haas, though, I wish it was just a tad more condensed, as it can feel a bit too similar at times.

Hooray, an answer! Thanks :)

I wasn't familiar with this one previously but now that I see it in higher resolution I can see why DaDerga thought it might have been Roboto — it has slightly more ‘squashed’ letterforms, a bit closer to a DIN than something like Frutiger, Myriad or Open Sans. Interesting to hear the thought process behind that — it's not so long ago that videogame typography was effectively a bunch of bitmaps being rendered from sprites, and now we see you're actually giving consideration to subpixel hinting.

Like we see throughout the game, there's an accent of fantasy here and there. In the UI, we were inspired by the map from Time Bandits to create the look of the navigator map used in the Director. In that, we accented with Cromwell, as you guys have astutely noticed.

Ah, this one I'd never have guessed myself — it's on your resources page :) But it's interesting to hear it's inspired by the map from Time Bandits; I can immediately see the similarities between it and the ‘antique star map’ included with the collector's edition:

Like we see throughout the game, there's an accent of fantasy here and there. In the UI, we were inspired by the map from Time Bandits to create the look of the navigator map used in the Director.

(Oddly, the executive producer of Time Bandits is not pictured.)

http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=32328

http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=32328

-- Steve was glad to have that font in his Warhammer 40k day heydays.

Yes, we used Neue Haas as our primary font. We wanted to veer far from digital/techy and go for a clean look.

Unfortunately, we had some issues with fidelity rendering it at small, subpixel alignments; particularly the italicized version. For the small body and italics caption font, I went with Epoca Pro. That one was authored and hinted specifically for screen display so it worked much nicer at small sizes. The fact that it is narrower and gothic helps separate it from Neue Haas, though, I wish it was just a tad more condensed, as it can feel a bit too similar at times.

Like we see throughout the game, there's an accent of fantasy here and there. In the UI, we were inspired by the map from Time Bandits to create the look of the navigator map used in the Director. In that, we accented with Cromwell, as you guys have astutely noticed.

Overall i'm impressed with your detective work. :)