Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 28 September, 2023, 07:29:20 AMQuote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 27 September, 2023, 11:33:04 PMWhy would they do that, Jim? It didn't need improving. The new "E"s are worse, with their shortened bottom line, and the "M" is all curved and too big for its boots.
After Tom's death, his family felt it would be appropriate to 'retire' Tom's custom lettering font, so I imagine that any existing Frame digital lettering that, for whatever reason, hadn't been converted from live text to outlines would need substituting for something that looked reasonably close to the Frame droid's work.
Given that it's based on someone else's hand lettering (Marian Churchland's, obviously!) the Churchland font is a surprisingly good fit, although I run it with the horizontal scale up a little for the 'Frame tribute' style I use on Spector.
It's possible that Rebellion hold/held a copy of Tom's original font from back in the day, but there are any number of reasons why they might not be able to use it (not least because it might well be in the deprecated .ttf format, which a lot of print workflows will no longer accept).
So... my money is on an automatic font substitution routine that hit a glitch here and somehow slipped through the net.
(Please note that everything I've said here is speculation: I have no insight into the production/pre-press pipeline at Rebellion.)
I'm pretty sure that font isn't Churchland though--it's Tom's font, from around 2000-2003. After c.2003 it was replaced by the rounder version in the second image. So they've replaced one Tom font with another.