This font is going to be in every other Star Wars fan film from here to eternity, or at least it should be. It appears to instantly imbue that feeling of 70s futurism to anything it’s pasted on, in a way that isn’t at all overused or cliche.
I hope not. If the Star Wars humanoids are anything like us, then they would change and evolve their fonts for the same reasons we do: Technology improvements, better readability (ergonomically), efficiency, boredom, desire to be unique and recognizable as a brand (Empire vs. Alliance), etc. So as the stories move forward in time, I would hope their surrounding aesthetic would do the same.
@@pvman2 We're still using the alphabet of the ancient Romans. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Also in the Star Wars universe technology hasn't really changed all that much for a long time, they've been at vaguely the same level for thousands of years.
Lucas film has a multi-million dollar budget for "Rogue One" to recreate the OG aesthetic of the targeting computer, yet this guy finds the original font on his own time and determination. Pay him.
Maybe cause Lucas films knew all along it was random gibberish, which if i watched this video correctly is what he said it could be.... so he still dont know
“VELOS” in aviation (and probably other areas as well) VLOS stands for “Visual Line Of Sight” maybe the “E” between the V and L means “Electronic”. I know when we verbally say “VLOS” it does phonetically sound like VELOS ( Vee-Loss).
I could tell just from watching it that if the silouette of an X- or Y- wing fighter was in the exact center of the screen and the blue crosshairs changed to white, that indicated a target lock. "I have you now!"
I think you nailed it. But to go a step further. Extended Visual Line of Sight operations ('EVLOS') and ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight' (BVLOS) (sometimes also called BLOS).
I feel i'm not the only one obsessing myself with little details as i 3d model things for fun i spent a lot of time trying to search images with a good view of details.
"Star wars font researcher." Sweet jesus we're hitting levels of niche that shouldn't be possible, and I love it! Seriously, good work finding this font and recreating it.
@@GeneralAceTheAwesome I'm sure if EC Henry did a video on my greatest nightmare I'd still watch, besides the giant telepathic spiders of Kessel are pretty interesting on their own
There are nerds, then there are geeky nerds and then there are Star Wars fans. This was a truly epic quest and I'm very glad you guys found the original font.
This is quite possibly the most obscure and in-depth single background element from the series that you have delved into and I am eternally thankful to you for doing it. Also kudos for reviving such a cool dead font!
QATech sounds like a manufacturer's name, I'd guess the targeting module is the "Velos" type. Warning at the end is probably the computer noting an alert that the "QATech Velos" has detected, like maybe the sensor specifically reads the targets shields, and the warning was saying "the enemy ship has changed it's shield power" or something.
QATech is actually a real company, they deal with probes and another with a similar name makes water dispensers. Also Velo could mean Velocity or Velos meaning arrow in Greek
Or it could say, "Warning, if you shoot now you'll hit something." Bit unusual for a targeting computer, sure, but there's not a lot else it could be when this is the, "you're locked onto your target and will hit them if you fire now" text.
@@ThePCguy17 the targeting computer probably understands that if you destroy anything *at close range,* flaming debris moving at fast velocities _are going to be_ created, and possibly hit your unshielded ship. Thus, a warning.
I remember 'dry transfers' also being available as toys. You could get a sheet with, say, comic characters and rub them with a pencil to transfer them to a piece of paper to make your own scenes and stuff like that.
Guy finds a text in SW that he can't decipher. He contacts and do research to find out what it means by finding the correct font. He gives the font to download to everyone. All of this in a clear and profound video under 7 minutes without a clickbaited title. You're the hero of our times.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me confident that your friend circle, yourself included, is easily the most deserving, perhaps not "qualified" in the Hollywood Insidership sense, but certainly deserving to be given Lucasfilm Collaborator status. I'm so confident in that claim, that I'm willing to bet any amount of money that Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, or George Lucas himself has seen your content and marveled at its dedication.
Not Qualified in Hollywood? Those fucking guys found and remade a found that even the guys behind Rogue one with huge amounts of money couldn't get These 2 Dudes ARE FUCKING BigBrain
1:28 "Even the Lucasfilm archives didn't have references that were clean enough to reconstruct these screens accurately." Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete?
This episode blew my mind! Such wonderful piece of detective work and art restoration not to mention your enthusiasm. It's beyond me that such a distinct font has been lost in time. Thank you for sharing this with the community and fans.
interesting velos apparently means arrow so it might be a very broken english version of "technical shot warning" from the targeting computer to say it believes you can hit the target.
@@swan3swan Everything in Star Wars is made in China. That means the blasters and turbolasers have a million preset options that you will never even know the purpose of.
Are we sure it's not 05? Velocity match set throttle to 50%, or relative velocity is only 5 whatever units tie fighters use faster, seems like a good quick readout to have. VEL05
'Vehicular Engagement Line-Of-Sight' - a targeting mode where the computer tracks fast-moving targets and needs to be ready to calculate leads for the pilot's lasers, as opposed to optimizing for ground-attack profiles with other munitions, maybe. ...Not that we see regular TIE fighters carry anything other than their pair of built-in lasers until the Squadrons game came out, but it wouldn't surprise me if Sienar just standardized the targeting computer across all its TIE variants.
I always thought the ones on the falcons guns said "Don't Kill Cocky" now I don't know who Cocky is but Han Solo definitely tells Luke not to get him, maybe he's Han Solo's friend from Empire Boot Camp and Cocky sent Han a message on the Gun Target system letting him know "Hey man, it's your friend Cocky, hey I'm gonna tell them you got away so don't kill me! Ok!" Luke: I GOT EM! Han: Great Kid, Don't get COCKY!
EC, I love all the videos you produce, especially the recreated starships. Would it be possible to make a wiki or a document cataloging all of your background stories for them? Some of the videos on TH-cam don't have the auto captions available and it makes it difficult to process what is being said without them sometimes.
The vast majority of Star Wars content that now exists was not created by Lucas, he's far from the top of the list when it comes to overall Star Wars knowledge.
@@thebrickbountyhunter9046 Which is hella lame. I hate to admit it, but Star Wars has one of the most poorly built worlds among the big franchises. Mainly it's due to George creating the base but then letting a bunch of others add to it which creates little consistency. Like why bother creating a different alphabet if the words are still the same?
Star Wars still has the Latin alphabet but it's called High Galactic instead. So it makes kinda sense that numbering is the same since the numbers we use are Arabic and thus a different culture where our alphabet comes from.
I used to go to art supply and office supply stores in the 1970s and the 1980s. I would frequently use dry transfer lettering at the time. So thank you for bringing back some memories of the times.
This kind of dedication is nuts, and I'm glad that there are people doing this kind of thing. It's always interesting learning these kind of small details about films, because it gives a glimpse into the moviemaking process. Keep it up, EC and Ender!
I do hope you are documenting all the work you do and your findings (beyond these videos of course). This is a great look at both the history of film production but also how future viewers can examine older works to understand how they were created.
Could “velos” mean velocity? I get that velocity has a “c” instead of an “s” but if someone wrote “veloc”, it would be hard to understand so they changed it to “velos”?
Velo for velocity. S for S foil, as in the "Strike Foils" that are the wings of an x-wing. "QATech" meaning Quad Acceleration Technology (on the back of the targetted XWing). What was the last part? EDIT: The last part was just "Warning" which could mean it's warning that you may lose targeting lock at any time due to the maneuverability of the x-wing, meaning you may be firing into allies if it moves away, or something.
Star Wars is amazing because of fans like EC Henry.... Wish some of the people working at Lucasfilm and Disney had the same love and attention to this amazing franchise.
I just thought all of that was done by the art department on a PC. But all fluid curves of the symbols should've been a giveaway that they weren't created on no 1970's computer lol.
Your painstaking and careful attention to detail is amazing and exciting. Thank you so much for this video and for all of your hard work and dedication.
One of the issues with Letraset is that after you have used the letters you need, you are left with sheets of random letters that are left over. So the designers may also just be using up spares. We used to label cassette tapes in the 80's and we had boxes of left over letters, numbers symbols and shapes. Some time a letter wouldn't transfer and you would look for a matching line of curve in a surplus unused letter to go over and fill in any partial transfers. Letraset was awesome
You’d think that critical information would be rendered on displays for maximum readability. Then again, you’d also think that at some point, someone would figure out that placing easily-rewired access panels at every secure entry point was a bad idea too 🤷🏻♂️
Awesome find. As a kid I used to play around with my dad's LETRASET sheets - way before computer design became as popular and spread as now. Great oldschool technology - nostalgia is strong with this one. Oh and the merch looks great - great use of fonts and wish you many well deserved sales.
Letraset was so cool. I remember my mother having sheets and sheets of these things at her job when I was a little kid. There are all sorts of typefaces from the 70s and earlier than never made it to digital fonts. It's cool to see that someone has done the work as a part of sci-fi fandom no less.
Very cool to see this font restored. Being a parody artist, I have one concern. What is the copyright on the font? Surely, the original creators of the font still hold it's copyright.
That was the most compelling TH-cam merch pitch I have ever seen. Superb conversation piece, pertinent content to the video, passionate entreaty to share his joy. I may never again see its like.
I am for sure downloading that font. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am very glad someone is finding and restoring these things. I hope Disney takes note and uses some of this stuff as they move forward with that franchise. Every bit of accuracy to the original is welcomed.
another detail i noticed: when darth vader lines up his TIE with luke's x-wing, he says "i have you now" and shoots. but thats the thing: he shoots while his fighter is lined up and luke doesnt die or react to it. this one has bugged me for years
Luke’s shields were still strong at that point. With Biggs and Wedge having taking the hits, Luke’s fighter still had enough energy to protect its engines. Not a lot, seeing how R2 was heavily damaged, but it could still hold for a few more seconds. Without the last minute intervention of Han, Luke would’ve immediately get blown up
Wow this is some excellent sleuthing! Never paid attention to this little detail but absolutely fascinated at the old era's typography and the resources available at the time. It's that little bit of film making that went un-noticed, yet now today it's like uncovering treasure.
This video just popped up in my recommended, and I'm glad it did. It's pretty cool that you guys were able to figure this out and recreate the font for others to use. I could see using this font for something like magic runes (which isn't too far off from how it was used in Star Wars, honestly); it has a very distinctive style that would offer a lot of contrast with other fonts that could also be used in a similar way. That way, you could have multiple types of runes, each with their own distinctive style. It's stylized enough that at a glance it would appear as random symbols, but you could hide Easter eggs in the text for those who look closely and notice that they're actually just heavily stylized Latin letters.
The text reads “you suck at boost-gasping, noob - you’re also nearly out of weapon power because you’re charging your engines” ... rough translation #squadrons 😉
TIE Fighters have been my favorite sci-fi starfighters ever since I've seen the original trilogy, and I've been trying to learn everything there is to know about them. Including the text on the targeting computer. However, due to the reasons you've mentioned, I never could make out what the text was. Thanks for looking into this incredibly hidden detail. Too bad it just says gibberish. I've always assumed that it was written in aurabesh, as in Star Wars Rebels, when the TIE Defender is being flown in the nebula, and is about to burn up, the camera pans down on the targeting computer screen, and it says "danger" in aurabesh. Hopefully, since now you guys discovered the font, they'll start using it again, however, this time the text will have meaning.
I'm 60 and saw Star Wars with my girlfriend then (now my wife) and the Tie Fighter targetting system always fascinated me. It's cool as my grandson would say now. Kudos, cowboy 🤠!
Amazing work! I love those things! Not only, because they're very nerdy and Star Wars, but because they also reveal little things of the life back in the 1970's.
Dude... that's so awesome. I almost give for granted computer fonts but I do remember using those dry-transfer letters and using a photocopier to adjust sizes. Another font generator system was the "wizard" that in reality was glorified label maker, sigh... now I feel old.
As a boy, I would obsess about intricate details like this in Star Wars lore. For example, what was the scanning range of an imperial probe droid, what sort of programming language did it run on. More that behind the scenes curiousity My family would think I was absolute bonkers -even to the point of forcing me to go play outside and shouting "It's just a movie for Gods sake". I would have no issues with deepdiving down to the subatomic level to understand the nuances and intricacies of a set piece etc. While the proverbial handwave to people like us is "A wizard did it", whenever we have specific targeted questions about something, thanks to the www and YT, we can share our knowledge for the greater good. Never stop being inquisitive. Great stuff and thank you so much
Fun fact!: dry transfer decals are still popular for model building today especially with High end, large scale Gundam Model Kits (aka Gunpla). Many cheaper kits tend to use matte or glossy stickers but Bandai's MG (Master Grade) and PG (Perfect Grade) kits often include dry transfers to decorate the model kit
Imagine going back in time 44 years ago and telling the graphic designer working on that visual that people would be puzzling and poring over every scrap of information available to determine what the three tiny words that flash onscreen for 1 second say.
This font is going to be in every other Star Wars fan film from here to eternity, or at least it should be. It appears to instantly imbue that feeling of 70s futurism to anything it’s pasted on, in a way that isn’t at all overused or cliche.
What about aurebesh
Yet
I hope not. If the Star Wars humanoids are anything like us, then they would change and evolve their fonts for the same reasons we do: Technology improvements, better readability (ergonomically), efficiency, boredom, desire to be unique and recognizable as a brand (Empire vs. Alliance), etc. So as the stories move forward in time, I would hope their surrounding aesthetic would do the same.
@@pvman2 But the font is dope tho.
@@pvman2 We're still using the alphabet of the ancient Romans. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Also in the Star Wars universe technology hasn't really changed all that much for a long time, they've been at vaguely the same level for thousands of years.
Lucas film has a multi-million dollar budget for "Rogue One" to recreate the OG aesthetic of the targeting computer, yet this guy finds the original font on his own time and determination. Pay him.
Maybe cause Lucas films knew all along it was random gibberish, which if i watched this video correctly is what he said it could be.... so he still dont know
under current management i don't think Lucasfilm should hire him, fire Kennedy and then hire him.
isnt Lucas Film was Bought by Walt Disney?
Pay him?? Do you know what being a fan means??
You mean hire him
@@newtybot Disney Lucasfilm doesn't hire Star Wars fans, they hire people who are against Star Wars fans.
This is exactly the sort of delightful deep dive on obscure production details that I love. Excellent work!
Same.
Should we consider EC Henry as a Star Wars Scholar? Or Star Wars Archaeologist?
🤔🤔🤔
@@operationstratos1013 yes
@@operationstratos1013 I'd say archeologist, considering Star Wars' setting.
It is
“VELOS” in aviation (and probably other areas as well) VLOS stands for “Visual Line Of Sight” maybe the “E” between the V and L means “Electronic”. I know when we verbally say “VLOS” it does phonetically sound like VELOS ( Vee-Loss).
Interesting. I’ve also heard that Βέλος (Velos In Greek) means arrow, so it could be a mode of fire, or a targeting system of some kind
@@johnhenrymills4517 I was ready to explain what means velos (βελος) ...but you come first ...cheers from Greece
@@dimitrispapadimitriou9013 👌🏼
I could tell just from watching it that if the silouette of an X- or Y- wing fighter was in the exact center of the screen and the blue crosshairs changed to white, that indicated a target lock. "I have you now!"
I think you nailed it. But to go a step further. Extended Visual Line of Sight operations ('EVLOS') and ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight' (BVLOS) (sometimes also called BLOS).
I love you man, nobody else watches these films and obsess over the little things like you do. Never change
I feel i'm not the only one obsessing myself with little details as i 3d model things for fun i spent a lot of time trying to search images with a good view of details.
@@marcomelbourne Ec Henry makes money doing what he loves… I hardly can call that a failure
he's the best !
Bombastic: am i a joke to you?
Not my star wars....
"Star wars font researcher." Sweet jesus we're hitting levels of niche that shouldn't be possible, and I love it! Seriously, good work finding this font and recreating it.
I'm a simple man, I see EC in my feed, I immediately click the video without even reading the title
@@mr.potato3936 I imagine EC Henry would have some interesting things to say about my worst nightmare
@@GeneralAceTheAwesome I'm sure if EC Henry did a video on my greatest nightmare I'd still watch, besides the giant telepathic spiders of Kessel are pretty interesting on their own
@@mr.potato3936 you know what? You right
@@mr.potato3936 ta-daaa
I find you enthusiasm impressive
There are nerds, then there are geeky nerds and then there are Star Wars fans. This was a truly epic quest and I'm very glad you guys found the original font.
There are also Tolkien fans.
EC is the Indiana Jones of SW.
Nah that's Dr Aphra
Uh, Han Solo? Duh...
Except this isn't going to a museum, it's being made available to the public for free*.
of the SW fandom*
That belongs in a Holocron
This is quite possibly the most obscure and in-depth single background element from the series that you have delved into and I am eternally thankful to you for doing it. Also kudos for reviving such a cool dead font!
QATech sounds like a manufacturer's name, I'd guess the targeting module is the "Velos" type. Warning at the end is probably the computer noting an alert that the "QATech Velos" has detected, like maybe the sensor specifically reads the targets shields, and the warning was saying "the enemy ship has changed it's shield power" or something.
QATech is actually a real company, they deal with probes and another with a similar name makes water dispensers. Also Velo could mean Velocity or Velos meaning arrow in Greek
Or it could say, "Warning, if you shoot now you'll hit something."
Bit unusual for a targeting computer, sure, but there's not a lot else it could be when this is the, "you're locked onto your target and will hit them if you fire now" text.
@@ThePCguy17 it could be a proximity alert... as in: look out for exploding debris that can _blow you up._
@@TheRealNormanBates But it pre-empts the existence of said exploding debris though...
@@ThePCguy17 the targeting computer probably understands that if you destroy anything *at close range,* flaming debris moving at fast velocities _are going to be_ created, and possibly hit your unshielded ship.
Thus, a warning.
I remember 'dry transfers' also being available as toys. You could get a sheet with, say, comic characters and rub them with a pencil to transfer them to a piece of paper to make your own scenes and stuff like that.
Tiny thing I found: I think the Chariot font was used on the TIE pilot helmets!
We've been investigating that. It's possible, but I don't think it's a *perfect* match
@@HappyLeviathan2 maybe a slightly changed version of chariot
Guy finds a text in SW that he can't decipher.
He contacts and do research to find out what it means by finding the correct font.
He gives the font to download to everyone.
All of this in a clear and profound video under 7 minutes without a clickbaited title.
You're the hero of our times.
This is Tolkien Legendarium levels of in-depth research and knowledge recovery.
The fact that you guys dig up that font and brought it back has me overjoyed. That’s amazing
This is the kind of stuff that makes me confident that your friend circle, yourself included, is easily the most deserving, perhaps not "qualified" in the Hollywood Insidership sense, but certainly deserving to be given Lucasfilm Collaborator status.
I'm so confident in that claim, that I'm willing to bet any amount of money that Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, or George Lucas himself has seen your content and marveled at its dedication.
Not Qualified in Hollywood? Those fucking guys found and remade a found that even the guys behind Rogue one with huge amounts of money couldn't get
These 2 Dudes ARE FUCKING BigBrain
Amen
@@Vinci480 *font
@@Vinci480 what was it??
@@stevenrevan3028 Chariot
Thanks for archiving these fonts in a digital format for free. The fan community really appreciates you!
1:28 "Even the Lucasfilm archives didn't have references that were clean enough to reconstruct these screens accurately."
Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete?
Yes
If an item does not appear in their records, it does not exist.
Lost a reference, Lucasfilm has. How embarrassing. How…embarrassing…
"...How can this be... A thought?"
"Master, because someone erased it from the archive memory."
Or poor quality because...who ever thinks their work is going to be a part of history?
I have created those kinds of circular graphics in Abode Illustrator and it can take hours just to complete one of them. Appreciate this man's work.
EC’s just gonna make a new Star Wars trilogy all on his own at this point, and somehow more faithful than the original movies to themselves.
"EC Henry, Author of the Star Wars" by Jorge Luis Borges
nah disney would sue him
This episode blew my mind! Such wonderful piece of detective work and art restoration not to mention your enthusiasm. It's beyond me that such a distinct font has been lost in time. Thank you for sharing this with the community and fans.
interesting velos apparently means arrow so it might be a very broken english version of "technical shot warning" from the targeting computer to say it believes you can hit the target.
Yep. Velos (βέλος) means arrow in Greek.
Maybe the laser cannons are set to "Velos"? Short, precise, powerful?
@@swan3swan I like that!
So basically Star Wars version of "Launch Authorized" notification on modern jet's HUD?
I like that explanation.
@@swan3swan Everything in Star Wars is made in China. That means the blasters and turbolasers have a million preset options that you will never even know the purpose of.
VELOS = Velocity Stable... At least, that's the only backronym I can come up with that makes any sense from a weapons targeting standpoint.
Are we sure it's not 05? Velocity match set throttle to 50%, or relative velocity is only 5 whatever units tie fighters use faster, seems like a good quick readout to have. VEL05
'Vehicular Engagement Line-Of-Sight' - a targeting mode where the computer tracks fast-moving targets and needs to be ready to calculate leads for the pilot's lasers, as opposed to optimizing for ground-attack profiles with other munitions, maybe.
...Not that we see regular TIE fighters carry anything other than their pair of built-in lasers until the Squadrons game came out, but it wouldn't surprise me if Sienar just standardized the targeting computer across all its TIE variants.
Ender is my brother, and I couldn't be more proud of him and thanks for featuring him in your project!
This, this is cool. Modern day archaeology. So interesting.
Oh wow, that font restoration is amazing. Gonna have to check that out once Tropical Storm Elsa passes.
Letraset.
That’s what the “Dry-Transfers” are called using the Brand-Name
I love how there's more research into Star Wars texts than some archaeological language samples
Star Wars is ancient. It happened a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away
@@goodputin4324 This has all happened before, and it will all happen again
But in a future we barely exist
I always thought the ones on the falcons guns said "Don't Kill Cocky" now I don't know who Cocky is but Han Solo definitely tells Luke not to get him, maybe he's Han Solo's friend from Empire Boot Camp and Cocky sent Han a message on the Gun Target system letting him know "Hey man, it's your friend Cocky, hey I'm gonna tell them you got away so don't kill me! Ok!"
Luke: I GOT EM!
Han: Great Kid, Don't get COCKY!
Underrated comment
Cocky was an imperial pilot who let Solo get away when smuggling spice in exchange for credits. Can't blast your inside man.
@@alastairward2774 @Alastair Ward I'm just hoping we get a Kenner Cocky Action Figure in time for Christmas 🎄🎄🎄⛄🎄🎄
WOW EC Henry is a master of the original trilogy like a BOSS.
Now this is the kind of dedication I love seeing in the fandom! Absolutely incredible that yall managed to find something so obscure
EC, I love all the videos you produce, especially the recreated starships. Would it be possible to make a wiki or a document cataloging all of your background stories for them? Some of the videos on TH-cam don't have the auto captions available and it makes it difficult to process what is being said without them sometimes.
You’ve done something very cool here. Absolutely love the font.
Soon EC Henry will know Star Wars better than George Lucas himself
thats not that difficult, considering how he fucked over it with the films we do not speak of.
@@councilofpoorlylitbaldpeople wowwww hello prequel hater smh
The vast majority of Star Wars content that now exists was not created by Lucas, he's far from the top of the list when it comes to overall Star Wars knowledge.
Sell it to him then & get things back in order
Most fans already do, am I right? Ha ha! Got 'em!
Man, you REALLY ought to be a paid employee for the franchise. Your stuff is so incredible - you bring every possible detail in this universe to life.
I did work experience in an ad agency in the 80’s and we used Letraset dry transfers all the time. Great video 👍
Incredible! I didn’t even know this was a problem. I love when classic things like this are discovered and arise again
2:20 reminds me of Presto Magix.. where kids can create scenes the same way
Dry transfer lettering - now that’s a terminology I’ve not heard in a long time - a long time…
In a galaxy far far away
I still get annoyed that they created Aurabesh, but never bothered to create a different numbering system.
They sorta did, numbers have aurabesh characters, but they are pronounced the same as in English.
It was a long long time ago, in a numbering system far, far away.
@@thebrickbountyhunter9046 Which is hella lame. I hate to admit it, but Star Wars has one of the most poorly built worlds among the big franchises. Mainly it's due to George creating the base but then letting a bunch of others add to it which creates little consistency. Like why bother creating a different alphabet if the words are still the same?
Star Wars still has the Latin alphabet but it's called High Galactic instead. So it makes kinda sense that numbering is the same since the numbers we use are Arabic and thus a different culture where our alphabet comes from.
@@thechairman74 Yes, it's a bit Basic ;)
Today: EC Henry makes genuinely quite significant cinematic history…again
For EC Henry it was just another Wednesday.
My mother still has a full Letraset cabinet and the transfer stick, im sure she used it in the 90s too.
I used to go to art supply and office supply stores in the 1970s and the 1980s. I would frequently use dry transfer lettering at the time. So thank you for bringing back some memories of the times.
This is quite possibly the most pedantic thing I've ever seen in my life.....love it.
This kind of dedication is nuts, and I'm glad that there are people doing this kind of thing. It's always interesting learning these kind of small details about films, because it gives a glimpse into the moviemaking process. Keep it up, EC and Ender!
I do hope you are documenting all the work you do and your findings (beyond these videos of course).
This is a great look at both the history of film production but also how future viewers can examine older works to understand how they were created.
Oh my God, you have my subscription. I have enormous respect for you digitizing the chariot font. This is incredible work.
cant wait to see EC Henry in the credits of the next star wars property with a tie fighter targeting screen in it
Awesome font, awesome shirts - didn't know i could be so fascinated by blurry text before but here i am back at another EC Henry video
Could “velos” mean velocity? I get that velocity has a “c” instead of an “s” but if someone wrote “veloc”, it would be hard to understand so they changed it to “velos”?
That's the first thing I thought
What about “QATech” ?
@@CaptainM792 possibly scanning/target acquisition mode?
@@CaptainM792 or it’s the name of the company that creates the scanning technology?
Velo for velocity. S for S foil, as in the "Strike Foils" that are the wings of an x-wing.
"QATech" meaning Quad Acceleration Technology (on the back of the targetted XWing).
What was the last part? EDIT: The last part was just "Warning" which could mean it's warning that you may lose targeting lock at any time due to the maneuverability of the x-wing, meaning you may be firing into allies if it moves away, or something.
Star Wars is amazing because of fans like EC Henry.... Wish some of the people working at Lucasfilm and Disney had the same love and attention to this amazing franchise.
Star Wars should be a university undergrad section.
Only the original 3 films.
For profit universites...
💡💡🤔🤑
It need that as much as Gender Studies AKA not at all.
This is why I love the Star Wars community! This is genuinely amazing - so cool!
Have I mentioned you’re incredible? Because you’re incredible.
I can hear the genuine excitement in your voice, great job and congrats!
I just thought all of that was done by the art department on a PC. But all fluid curves of the symbols should've been a giveaway that they weren't created on no 1970's computer lol.
Your painstaking and careful attention to detail is amazing and exciting. Thank you so much for this video and for all of your hard work and dedication.
One of the issues with Letraset is that after you have used the letters you need, you are left with sheets of random letters that are left over. So the designers may also just be using up spares. We used to label cassette tapes in the 80's and we had boxes of left over letters, numbers symbols and shapes. Some time a letter wouldn't transfer and you would look for a matching line of curve in a surplus unused letter to go over and fill in any partial transfers. Letraset was awesome
You’d think that critical information would be rendered on displays for maximum readability. Then again, you’d also think that at some point, someone would figure out that placing easily-rewired access panels at every secure entry point was a bad idea too 🤷🏻♂️
Ah yes, good ol’ sienar as fuck, im gonna use that font on my dissertation
Awesome find. As a kid I used to play around with my dad's LETRASET sheets - way before computer design became as popular and spread as now. Great oldschool technology - nostalgia is strong with this one. Oh and the merch looks great - great use of fonts and wish you many well deserved sales.
The lengths that my fellow Star Wars geeks will go never ceases to amaze me!
It is good to know that people like you, doing this sort of thing, are out there. We, the rest of Fandom, thank you.
Dude, that's Seinar AF!
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Can't believe how far donw I had to scroll for this.
These videos and things you all make are always these fascinating
Very Cool! What about the computer in Luke's X-Wing when he's on his way to Dagobah, and Luke is talking to R2?
That’s just Arubesh, which is also what I’m pretty sure your supposed to think the X-Wing text in ANH is (hence the blur)
Letraset was so cool. I remember my mother having sheets and sheets of these things at her job when I was a little kid. There are all sorts of typefaces from the 70s and earlier than never made it to digital fonts. It's cool to see that someone has done the work as a part of sci-fi fandom no less.
Very cool to see this font restored.
Being a parody artist, I have one concern.
What is the copyright on the font? Surely, the original creators of the font still hold it's copyright.
That was the most compelling TH-cam merch pitch I have ever seen. Superb conversation piece, pertinent content to the video, passionate entreaty to share his joy. I may never again see its like.
Wow, when a TH-camr is more caring for the details than the people working on the latest star wars movies, it's no wonder those recent movies sucked.
I am for sure downloading that font. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I am very glad someone is finding and restoring these things. I hope Disney takes note and uses some of this stuff as they move forward with that franchise. Every bit of accuracy to the original is welcomed.
another detail i noticed:
when darth vader lines up his TIE with luke's x-wing, he says "i have you now" and shoots. but thats the thing: he shoots while his fighter is lined up and luke doesnt die or react to it.
this one has bugged me for years
Luke’s shields were still strong at that point. With Biggs and Wedge having taking the hits, Luke’s fighter still had enough energy to protect its engines. Not a lot, seeing how R2 was heavily damaged, but it could still hold for a few more seconds. Without the last minute intervention of Han, Luke would’ve immediately get blown up
Wow this is some excellent sleuthing! Never paid attention to this little detail but absolutely fascinated at the old era's typography and the resources available at the time. It's that little bit of film making that went un-noticed, yet now today it's like uncovering treasure.
The is the worst case of "I'm single" I've ever seen...
This video just popped up in my recommended, and I'm glad it did. It's pretty cool that you guys were able to figure this out and recreate the font for others to use. I could see using this font for something like magic runes (which isn't too far off from how it was used in Star Wars, honestly); it has a very distinctive style that would offer a lot of contrast with other fonts that could also be used in a similar way. That way, you could have multiple types of runes, each with their own distinctive style. It's stylized enough that at a glance it would appear as random symbols, but you could hide Easter eggs in the text for those who look closely and notice that they're actually just heavily stylized Latin letters.
It”s Aurebesh, the galactic standard
Chariot font really had a cool look to it. Glad you guys are bringing it to the modern day.
The text reads “you suck at boost-gasping, noob - you’re also nearly out of weapon power because you’re charging your engines” ... rough translation #squadrons 😉
This is why I love this channel.
TIE Fighters have been my favorite sci-fi starfighters ever since I've seen the original trilogy, and I've been trying to learn everything there is to know about them.
Including the text on the targeting computer. However, due to the reasons you've mentioned, I never could make out what the text was.
Thanks for looking into this incredibly hidden detail. Too bad it just says gibberish.
I've always assumed that it was written in aurabesh, as in Star Wars Rebels, when the TIE Defender is being flown in the nebula, and is about to burn up, the camera pans down on the targeting computer screen, and it says "danger" in aurabesh.
Hopefully, since now you guys discovered the font, they'll start using it again, however, this time the text will have meaning.
What a wonderful little thing for the art history of film production design, this video!
This turned out to be different than I expected. As a font fanatic I was well impressed. Nice job!
This is exactly the kind of stuff I expected to find on TH-cam at 4:30 in the morning.
You shine light on details most people don´t even THINK about.
Awesome vid, Henry!
I'm 60 and saw Star Wars with my girlfriend then (now my wife) and the Tie Fighter targetting system always fascinated me. It's cool as my grandson would say now. Kudos, cowboy 🤠!
You linking the files for those fonts makes my day!
I can't believe you found the font, it's amazing how dedicated fans are to the smallest detail cause it's so interesting. Awesome!
Amazing work! I love those things! Not only, because they're very nerdy and Star Wars, but because they also reveal little things of the life back in the 1970's.
thank you for allowing us to use this!!!! I am over the moon thrilled!
Dude... that's so awesome. I almost give for granted computer fonts but I do remember using those dry-transfer letters and using a photocopier to adjust sizes. Another font generator system was the "wizard" that in reality was glorified label maker, sigh... now I feel old.
As a boy, I would obsess about intricate details like this in Star Wars lore. For example, what was the scanning range of an imperial probe droid, what sort of programming language did it run on. More that behind the scenes curiousity
My family would think I was absolute bonkers -even to the point of forcing me to go play outside and shouting "It's just a movie for Gods sake".
I would have no issues with deepdiving down to the subatomic level to understand the nuances and intricacies of a set piece etc.
While the proverbial handwave to people like us is "A wizard did it", whenever we have specific targeted questions about something, thanks to the www and YT, we can share our knowledge for the greater good.
Never stop being inquisitive. Great stuff and thank you so much
Its amazing how you could rescue that detail.
This is amazing. So pleased I came down this TH-cam wormhole!
Super deep cut and I love it! Amazing work tracking down the original font as well as recreating it.
Ordered the Tie Fighter UI shirt!
Excellent super-sluething! Always excited to see what new tidbits you uncover.
Fun fact!: dry transfer decals are still popular for model building today especially with High end, large scale Gundam Model Kits (aka Gunpla).
Many cheaper kits tend to use matte or glossy stickers but Bandai's MG (Master Grade) and PG (Perfect Grade) kits often include dry transfers to decorate the model kit
Just downloaded some of the fonts. thanks for the link
Imagine going back in time 44 years ago and telling the graphic designer working on that visual that people would be puzzling and poring over every scrap of information available to determine what the three tiny words that flash onscreen for 1 second say.
This is exactly the kind of deep dive Star Wars is perfect for. Great research!