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The entire idea behind the Gallatica font was
to make an old style space font based primari-
ly on varsity style lettering. I enjoy the
stability and strength of the old school
varsity letters with thick slabs and squared
off serifs to make themselves even wider. Once
the grid was chosen I had a feeling of exactly
which direction I would be heading.
I created a basic square grid but on top of that
I placed a hexagon grid. Instead of having
sqaured off and perfectly straigh serifs and
sections of the letters I knew that by adding
the hexagons it would create a different
direction and angle on the letters. As you can
see so cleasrly in the serifs on the captial
letters and as well on some of the bottom legs
of some of the characters you can see the
angle cut the leg short.
along with being inspired by the varsity style
font, I wa salso inspired by the old style space
films and cheasp television shows. Its some-
thing that I felt would or could be used for the
title above a video game or something you
would see at an arcade. Once I had the two
inspirations down and started mixing the ideas
together, out came Gallatica.
For obvious reason, gallatica is a display font.
if really desired it is fully uniformed with
lowercase letters as you can see. Gallatica
can me used on signage and as for fonts of
names of companies or used with logos.
the font was inspired by old style space films
as well as the varisty style lettering in
college and high school sports. So with that
said, there is a preference for the font to be
used a sports jersey for names and the team
name if it is suited to it in some sort of way
such as a sports teams with the name martians
or space cowboys. What the odds of that may
be, who knows.
The second prefered usage of my font and
characters would to be for a video game or a
film title sequence and trailers. If any of
these things were being done in the now so
popular retro style way of doing everything, i
would hope this glyph set would be an asset.