Start of an idea

When I set out to make goods inspired by a galaxy far far away. I knew I wanted to lean into things that could be seen in universe while still being something earthly. This means I chose to set the majority of the text in my designs with an in universe font.

Goal

Create an Aurebesh font for myself so I didn’t need to rely on somebody else's font. While designing a typeface that had features that I wanted. Aurebesh is a lettering system within the Star Wars universe. While it has many different visual forms I didn’t want to rely on someone else’s font for my work. So I created my own.

Creating the font

To be fair I didn’t know much about creating a font so I grabbed the demo of Glyphs app and got to work making a font. Not to mention that I chose to make a variable font. As I’ve realized that its handy to have multiple weights of a font available for your designs.

Aurebesh basically has a set of glyphs that represent regular Latin letterforms. There are some exceptions and over time things have changed. But the font i chose to make works for me exactly the way I think it should. There are lots of opinions about Aurebesh the font. I’ve decidedly taken some sides here on my version.

No reversed capitals

For a period of time when you capitalized a glyph in Aurebesh it was represented by a glyph being flipped horizontally. This to me is wrong and something most canon appearances of Aurebesh have fixed this. With the exception of flipped shots or textures in animation.

Proper capitals

This is my personal preference when using capitals with Aurebesh. This is also reminiscent of how some Aurebesh appears on screen in Star Wars Rebels. I find its very useful to have Capitals that are physically larger and not just scaled up.

No digraphs

Similar to the flipped characters for capitals we have digraphs. These digraphs are often single glyphs that represent multiple glyphs that appear side by side like TH. I don’t believe in digraphs for Aurebesh and have made my font without them.

Regular and tech numerals

Its only fair that you have the option to use normal Aurebesh numerals and also have tech numerals available to you. With normal numerals using the standard keys and tech numerals available as tabular within the font.

Final Font

The final font is actually a variable font. Something that I was exposed to while using Apple’s SF Font. The availability of weights was essential in helping me craft designs without hand building glyphs for each and every design. Now I have a font that gets me 90% of the way there and I can build on it.

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