Some Pulp Graphics!

[d phipps]

Great work, and thanks for the links!

I really appreciate your use era-style fonts. And it is so nice not to see another 'Indiana Jones' looking font. 


Dave-

[Wirelizard]

Great work, and thanks for the links!

I really appreciate your use era-style fonts. And it is so nice not to see another 'Indiana Jones' looking font. 

I don't even have an Indiana Jones-style font installed on either machine I'm doing this stuff on, actually.  I've got other movie-inspired fonts, but not currenty an Indy one. Faking a period look also isn't so much about the flashy fonts, as about the quieter ones used in subtitles and body text. Get those right, and you're a long way toward replicating a pulp-era look.

One more source for fonts that is highly deserving of mention: HPLHS Prop Fonts - more retro revivals from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. There's a bunch of nice free fonts, and a CD full of even more fonts to buy.

I also started a Pulp-Era Fonts & Graphics thread here on LAF a while ago, which has some additional resources.

One design trick I've seen on a LOT of period text, and which is easy to replicate no matter which font you use: an outline in black or a contrasting colour around the letters. Very common, easy to do, think of it as a "cheap and easy retro-look". (Easy in Inkscape, anyway. Just change the colour of the Stroke (outline) of the lettering. Have I mentioned I love Inkscape?)