A thermometer font

[klond]

 Q:  Why did you do this? - A: I don't know.  Feeding a mild OCD maybe.

 

 I like the look and simplicity of segment displays     and wanted to see if I could make a font in this style.  Fortunately in the KSP world I'm not constrained by actual segment limitations, but I did self-impose some rules.

 

-Keep part count low

-Make sure it's readable

-Keep all angles at 45/90 degrees

-Snap all the things

-Add a little style

 

 Here's what I came up with

 Each letter has a perch so I can move and adjust a whole character at a time.

 

How do we manage a project?  Well, I open the alphabet craft, make a new starting mount beside it.  I give each line a start point, and each word a point on the line.  Then I copy each character on to a line.  So each line, word, and letter has it's own point so I can shift items efficiently and consistantly.

 Then at the end I delete the alphabet I used for copying, center the whole paragraph on a probe, and save as a new file.  Lots of copying and adjusting.

 

 Well I needed something to write.  How about the Star Wars crawl?  I didn't mean to jump on this bandwagon, but I wanted text that was space-related and this is what I thought of.

The Star Wars text is now a probe that can orbit!   @Castille7 took it to space for me (since my computer was having problems with the part count) to get some gnarly screenshots.

 

 I did the 2010 Space Odyssey screen (possible movie spoiler?).

Spoiler

 Wasn't too bad since the spacing was even.  No one double-checked these so I'm hoping for no typos.

 

 Anyways, just wanted to show yall.

Edited June 10, 2018 by klond

[roboslacker]

Neat. Could you share the letter subassemblies?

[klond]

15 minutes ago, roboslacker said:

Neat. Could you share the letter subassemblies?

 Thanks.  Here's the alphabet from the top picture.  https://ufile.io/mo4xf

 Also Spaceball One - quick and dirty

 

Edited June 10, 2018 by klond

[Geonovast]

Brilliant.  I love it.

[klond]

 A little photoshop required

[klond]

More thermometer font.  Arm kinda hurts from this one.  No purches for each letter so any adjustments were time consuming.  Deletion of perches + lower case letters + adjustment of font kept part count low, relatively (1300).

kerbalx

Edited January 9, 2019 by klond

[Majorjim!]

Is there anything the humble thermometer cant do!? Great work on this mate!

[FleshJeb]

This is the kind of raw idiocy I like to see in KSP

[Triop]

[Ultimate Steve]

20 hours ago, Majorjim! said:

Is there anything the humble thermometer cant do!? Great work on this mate!

BRB I'm going to build a rocket that is as many thermometers as possible oh wait I have homework and improv and jazz band and studying and sleep.

[Taylanian]

Thats so cool!

[johnmorris]

Great font! I really liked how you created a Star Wars introduction text. Nice work.

[klond]

 snack delivery