Contest: ENTER January 2025 Art Challenge -- Timekeeping

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Contest: VOTE - January 2025 Art Challenge -- Timekeeping -- Please Vote!

Welcome to the voting thread for the 234th Trek BBS Fan Art Forum Challenge! Our Theme for January was Timekeeping, and described as: Timekeeping We know our Starfleet crews get themselves into all sorts of temporal scrapes, but how do they (and other galactic citizens) tell the time wherever...

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[Michael]

I can't take much credit for that font, it's Blender's default. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was a reasonable match for the ship's chronometer.

Whoa, interesting. That’s quite the coincidence then that they match so well. Looking into it, the font for the NCC-1701 chronometer seems to use Futura, while that Blender default font looks more like Gill Sans. While unrelated, they share quite a lot of similarities actually (especially the numbers) and were created only within one year of each other in the early 20th century. An obvious way to tell them apart seems to be that little stroke on the “1” that the Futura has but the Gill doesn‘t.