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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Evil Glenn on April 16, 2012, 12:37:38 PM
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Thanks to anyone that can help.
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Do you mean the big artsy font? If so, that's strictly artsy. It also changes from generation to generation. Old Castlevanias had spades coming out of the top and bottom of the C and some simple straight font like a modified Helvetica for the rest. The PS2 and DS games had a moon-shaped C and Germanic characters. Lords of Shadow had a spike on the back of the C reminiscent of ECCO The Dolphin.
But if you mean the text under the Castlevania logo, like "Symphony of the Night" or "Circle of the Moon", here ya go:
http://www.linotype.com/161529/GoudyTextDFR-product.html (http://www.linotype.com/161529/GoudyTextDFR-product.html)
That took me an hour to find and once you look through the character map you'll realize it's spot on. It's Fredric Goudy's popular font.
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I think the only rare letter in the new logo is the big C, I'm pretty sure that the "astlevania" part of it comes from a microsoft word font I think I made the experiment once.
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It's some German font. I want to say some form of a Fraktur font, but all the ones I'm finding have too large of a serif. But it's definitely a Fraktur or some such font. The little notch in the top of the lowercase L. The diamond-bottom lowercase n. Those are all customary attributes of a Fraktur font. I'm still working on it. Has a French "i" and German lettering. :-\ I think the fact that I narrowed the subtitle font down to Goudy Text (torrented it just now, so be patient) and have narrowed down the family of fonts used for the newer Castlevania titles is a pretty good step in the right direction. The C's all seem to be custom fonts. Working on the US NES Castlevanias too. I think the original Castlevania was a customized gothic font (haven't found anything with those diagonal tops AND diamond dots yet) and I haven't found the subtitle font for Dracula's Curse or Simon's Quest yet.
I will say this: most Italian-style fonts look really good as Castlevania titles, in my opinion. It's just something about the word "Castlevania" itself.
The Harmony of Dissonance's "C" is from a real font, though. I've seen that C countless times.
I'm leaning towards a combination of two or three Fractur fonts or a customized Fractur font. Take the serifs off (or shorten them) and replace the teardrop brushstroke dotted 'i' with a diamond stroke.
The 'D' in Dracula's Curse suggests it's a Fredric Goudy font, to me at least (I'm no expert), but I haven't found the C to match it. Goudy tends to use rounder C's.
Mix and match these fonts and you should be able to come pretty close. Remember there are no fancy serifs, an S looks like an S (not an F), and i's are dotted with a diamond in newer titles whereas older titles had an i dotted with a dipping swiff (dunno what to call it).
http://www.fontspace.com/category/fraktur (http://www.fontspace.com/category/fraktur)
http://www.fontspace.com/category/blackletter (http://www.fontspace.com/category/blackletter)
The C in Dracula's Curse for all intents and purposes (is that the right phrase?) is a fraktur C with the fancy vertical line removed. I gues there are also Rotund and Textura (or something) styles which are often very similar to Fraktur, but most of the Castlevania fonts appear to be Frakturs. (it's a categorization of a font, not a name, although there is a font called Fraktur).
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Ok, they used a custom font. The serifs on the S are shorter than is common. The serifs on the V are the clincher -- the long left serif is fairly common, but the squiggle style of the left serif is very rare; an outward right serif WITH a long left serif is nearly impossible to find and one with that long of a right serif is just as rare.
Never mind the C's. Castlevania's fonts were always unique because of the V's or T (in HoD). All of their fonts through the years appear to be custom fonts, but post SNES titles all used blackletter/fractur fonts.
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Does anyone got the ending CV1 font? In sprite sheet form? I'd like it cause I'm thinking of adding to the end of cv4. Someone created a decompresser for it so I wanna make a hack. Thanks.
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This one?
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That's it. Thanks.