D&D 3.x Title fonts for 3e books?

[Fenris-77]

I thought I was done, but I found one more. This is St Charles Extra Dark (again, with letters separated in places and then reassembled).

 

[Desdichado]

Unzaliash is very similar to Mael, which I mentioned above. The St Charles family is pretty good, but the D and V aren't right. (Of course, the M in Mael is quite different, and the font is heavier in general. UnZaliash seems to be the closest

I could kinda sorta do it by changing fonts back and forth mid word. But I'm not necessarily trying to make exactly the same type of text, just one that's similar. I like the look of it, but I'm not trying to mimic it exactly.

 

[Fenris-77]

Unzaliash is very similar to Mael, which I mentioned above. The St Charles family is pretty good, but the D and V aren't right.

I could kinda sorta do it by changing fonts back and forth mid word. But I'm not necessarily trying to make exactly the same type of text, just one that's similar.

Yeah, nothing will be exact. I think the V in St Charles is the biggest issue in terms of 'close'. Chopping off that long tail in vector would be pretty easy though. When I'm trying to reproduce a font the way you are I usually aim for as close as I can get and don't sweat the details too much. The hunt can be fun though, so good luck.

 

[Desdichado]

Yeah, I did one too, with Mael, St Charles Dark (not extra dark) and UnZaliash. I didn't do anything to mess with the kerning, or otherwise manually manipulate the letter positioning, but it's interesting to see the contrast between them. Unzaliash has the lightest look, more airy and thinner. If I modified the kerning to mash the letters closer together, or manually assembled the words from individual letters added separately, it'd look better, but Mael seems to be the closest on its own, at with the letters in this selection. Of course, if I used the Monster Manual with its double Ms, I probably wouldn't say that.

 

[Fenris-77]

Yeah, I did one too, with Mael, St Charles Dark (not extra dark) and UnZaliash. I didn't do anything to mess with the kerning, or otherwise manually manipulate the letter positioning, but it's interesting to see the contrast between them.
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I like that Mael version a lot, except for the I and s characters. The V is so-so. Best of the three though, IMO. Well, closest anyway. I actually like St Charles the best other than the V but it's not as close. You know, now that I look at it, I think you probably could get away with using the D from Mael with the other St Charles characters. With a titch of work maybe the V as well. IDK, any way you slice it you have some nice options to work with.

I'm adding Mael to my font library.

 

[Fenris-77]

Huh. The straight portmanteaux actually works pretty well with minimal resizing.

I tilted the L's a bit to straighten them up a bit and dropped the font size of the V and the D. That's about it.

 

[Desdichado]

I like that Mael version a lot, except for the I and s characters.

I should have done an all caps version too, actually. Although in that font's case, I don't know that it would have been different. I agree that the I isn't super great. But subbing it for a 1 might have done the trick. But again, I'm not trying to get exactly the font that the 3.5 titles use, just something similar. I'll keep messing around with these fonts to see how they look.

 

[Desdichado]

Huh. The straight portmanteaux actually works pretty well with minimal resizing.
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I tilted the L's a bit to straighten them up a bit and dropped the font size of the V and the D. That's about it.

That does look good. You just swapped fonts for the D and V, then?

 

[Fenris-77]

That does look good. You just swapped fonts for the D and V, then?

And the R, to make it a bit less swoopy.