For anyone that’s interested in other fonts used in the movie, I’m fairly certain that the BNL logo uses a slightly modified version of a Futura font… the closest match (that I can find, anyway) to the one used in the film being the Bitstream release of Futura Extra Black Italic. Adobe’s Extra Bold Oblique is probably second, but the R isn’t quite as good a match. No Futura that I’ve seen has an N quite as thick as the BNL logo, though, so I imagine that was altered slightly or the logo uses an iteration of Futura that I haven’t seen from a different foundry.
And the typeface used of the AXIOM lettering on the ship’s hull appears to be a font called Ethnocentric, the Truetype version of which is free and also available on DaFont.com. The Opentype version still costs money, apparently:
BTW, I got to talk to the guy who created Gunship, and confirmed that indeed, that was the official font for WALL-E. Like I said, good enough for pixar = good enough for me.
That’s so cool! Who knew we’d have some similarities?
BTW, I’ve also gone on the DaFont site to search for (dare I say it) the Pajama Sam font to see if they have it. It seems like they don’t, or I just haven’t searched hard enough. Maybe Humongous doesn’t release it’s own fonts?
Back on topic: I’ve also got the “Ethnocentric” font to write “Postulate” (the Axiom in my fanfic) or “Axiom”.
Yeah, Gunship wasn’t originally made for commercial use, so that’s why it’s available to the public. Pixar simply paid to use it/edit it slightly for commercial use.
I’m sure Disney has their own font designers too, but I mean, when somebody only asks for you to donate to a charity to use their font commercially and it’s already perfect, why not?
I downloaded this a while back so I could have it, but I can’t remember where I put it and therefore can’t load it on my PC. Ugh! It would seriously come in handy sometimes while making WALL•E arts!
On the subject of fonts used for Pixar movies, I realized that for years now I had owned the font that they used for the Ratatouille logo, and was pleasantly surprised to find that out like, last year.
boni, You’re awesome! I can already tell it’s going to be a great font, I’m downloading it right now. I’m making a WALL-E video right now, and I know that this is going to come in handy. I’ve been using the original Gunship, but there are some limitations, like the capital letters not being the same, and the zeros being crossed. I think that this is just the thing I’m looking for!