The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual 2.0
In 1975, Franz Joseph’s Technical Manual was the perfect companion to his Enterprise blueprints. While there are more accurate sources now, these were two of the best items to have during the time after The Original Series went off the air and before the movies began.
I’ve been working on an updated edition, and I wanted to share the work in progress as a way to get the word out there about it. It’d be nice to see this as an official licenced product in ebook or printed form, or both.
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Beautiful, clean work. Did you redraw everything, or was there autotracing of scans in this workflow? I’d also like to hear about your decision to replace the small-text face with more Eurostile.
Hi Moeskido –
Yes, it’s all redraw. Autotrace is great for hand-drawn stuff, but for technical drawing like this you get cleaner and smaller files by drawing manually (as I’m sure you know). And you can blow up the images for other purposes without producing glitchy artefacts.
As to the small text font: It appears to be hand-drawn Leroy drafting lettering which was common in 1975. From a design point of view it made sense to unite the type treatment into one family and thankfully Eurostile has a large number of styles and weights to make that work.
Thanks for your comments.
Very well done. Love what you’re doing. Very interested. Would love a copy when it’s made available.
The proper colour for Command is not old gold but pale ivy. If you look at the uniforms on a properly colour-balanced TV or a digitised still, the greenish hue is clearly visible.
Very nice work there.
Would love to get a copy of the finished product.
It would be really wonderful if you could have the book bound in the original style, with the black-vinyl-covered cardboard cover with the gold typeface and insert. It had such an authentic appearance.
This is a fantastic version.
Kudos