Topic: CV3 US cover font (I found it!)

[TheouAegis]

I remember looking around for this, but I don't remember if I ever actually found it. If I didn't find it yet, and if no one else found it yet, it's kinda sad and embarrassing that it was right in front of me all along. I just did a simple style search for blackletter fonts at MyFonts.com and then suddenly THERE IT WAS! Just sitting there looking all coyly at me, batting its demure i-lashes. Supposedly it's been around since 1894, created by a typographer named William Bradley.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/profonts/bradley/pro/specs.html

If you want to actually pay for it but want to save some money, here's a cheaper knock-off (with about half the glyphs).

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/fyne-fish-nf/regular/specs.html

[Ratty]

That's really cool! Hm do we have a thread for Castlevania fonts? We should.

[TheouAegis]

It's also the font used for Simon's Quest cover.


All the "Castlevania" fonts seem to be customs. I still have yet to find the original Castlevania title font. It seems to clearly be a condensed sans-serif bastardization of the Univers x9 font series or Wagner Grotesk or Reforma Grotesk or even Plakative Grotesk (grotesk just means sans-serif); I either find a font with slanted edges but round 'i' or slanted 'e', or I find fonts with level edges and diamond 'i'. And most of the fonts with either of those desired features have a flat-base 'v', such as Bell Gothic (the phone book font), for example. Even the 'C' in the Univers typeface looks nearly identical to the spaded 'C', I think. As for the newer ones, it's obviously blackletter/fraktur/textura, but that 'v' and the 's' are font-breakers. I can't find any fonts with that 'v' at all and any font with that 's' typically doesn't meet any of the other criteria. Thus while the 'C' in the original title may indeed be part of the base font, the 'C' in the newer titles is clearly not even part of the same font family; whereas on the other hand the 'v' in the original may be from a different font family but in the newer ones it's based on the same font family.

I don't remember if we ever figured out the SOTN subtitle font. It looks too generic to be hard to find. Again, just another blackletter font. It's funny when I google stuff and I don't even recognize my old posts or my avatar alongside said posts. So I guess I already found the SOTN subtitle font the last time I posted about the CV fonts. It's just the Goudy Text font family (probably Regular, but DFR will give you the long-S if you want to Deutsche schrift).