Galactican, the font
Version 1.0, March 1996
Mark F. Heiman (mheiman@kobol.com)


The story of the Galactican font

I've thought for a couple of years that it would be fun to have a copy of the typeface used for signs on the Galactica and other ships of the fleet, but I never got around to doing it. Then I stumbled across a freeware font called LynzFont. It didn't co me with any documentation explaining who created it or what its inspiration was, but the letter forms were similar to those on BG. However, the font was somewhat sloppily designed and didn't have any niceties like kerning. Having that impetus, I painstakingly scanned through the entire series, captured screen shots of all the signage that appeared in the episodes, and modified all of the characters in LynzFont to match. I ended up changing all of the characters somewhat, so it's not really LynzFont anymore, but I wanted to give at least a little credit to the anonymous designer.

I've since learned that LynzFont was based on the commercial font called Stop, which is probably what was used in the series, and I've corrected some of the letterforms to more closely resemble that font.

There's no difference between the upper and lowercase in Galactican, but the lowercase letters are kerned a little more carefully, so if you're in a situation where that matters, use all lowercase.

Suggestions for additions or modifications are welcome.

This font is freeware. You may copy and distribute it to your heart's content with no obligation whatsoever. I designed it for my own personal use with no intention of profit. Just don't claim it as your own work and we'll all be happy.
