Febuary 2024

I decided to put a blog section on my site! I thought it would be nice to have a small monthly article up.

I've been working on Raphiro a lot more lately, and to make some in-universe bits for my players, i've been replicating old documents. This telegram was specifically copied from a Western Union telegram.

a vintage telegram titled Corrican works with the text my peanus hurt in the fill area

The fonts used in this image are:

All are free for at least personal use and are really fun fonts, so I'd recommend downloading them.

In addition, i've been working more on the later eras of the setting, which led me to copying old TV logos! At first, I made this one, which reads more 90's than 70's according to some friends:

bolded exclesior news corporation logo in yellow text on black vhs background

I realized that the curved text and black background made it look more modern, which led me to make another version.

bolded exclesior news color production in yellow text on a blue vhs background

A lot of old news logos specified it was a color production, which I find cool- I used this website to look through some from the 70's. I wonder if it's also the reason why old logos were multicolored, to show they had a wide variety of color channels.

I also referenced the recreation of the Saturn V launch sequence that plays at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. I've gotten to see it in person, and it's indeed really cool. The panels and lights in the back light up as if the launch was actually occuring. It's the technology they used at the time, too, which made it a great real-world reference for my art.

Excelsior is spelled wrong twice... I'll fix it sometime later.

The fonts used in these are:

Music

The song i've been listening to this month is Champange Coast from Coastal Grooves by Blood Orange. I really love the 80's-inspired vocals.