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SPACE-imen 2020 Film: WALL·E Director: Andrew Stanton Production company: Pixar Animation Studios Year: 2008 Typeface: Galax·e Designer: David Occhino Type foundry: David Occhino Design Year: 2008

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GALAX·E 50pt

GALAX·E Designer David Occhino

Foundry David Occhino Design

Classification Geometric Sans Serif

Year Created 2008

Historical Background GALAX·E is a bold extended typeface of the Sans Serif variety that has straight angles and rounded edges. In fact, the letters look advanced and

technological. They have a distinct geometric style that is very futuristic looking. The Designer David Occhino made the typeface and digitalized it in March 2008.

It has both, upper and lower case. Beside the regular style it has a outline, shadow and a circled style.

Gunship by Dan Zadorozny was very similar in the design,

but it has differnet styles then GALAX·E. The typeface is more meant for titles and in particular it is used in the movie WALL·E.

GALAX·E is a bold, futuristic font that combines straight angles and rounded edges for an advanced, technological look.

A unique feature of this all-caps font is that the capital letters are centered within a circle. Version 2.0 adds lowercase letters

and a new version, "Circled."

This font was inspired by the lettering from Pixar’s animated movie "WALL·E" with additional

characters created and digitized

by David Occhino.

The bold extended typeface seen on WALL·E’s front plate is Gunship, designed by Dan Zadorozny, one of the unsung heroes of modern sci-fi type design. Dan is an amateur type designer from Texas whose Iconian Fonts website features

more than six hundred free hand-crafted typefaces, many of which have been used by sci-fi movies, TV shows, and book designers.

In addition to WALL·E’s front plate, Gunship is seen on Earth and aboard the Axiom, the

flagship spacecraft of megacorporation Buy n Large (BnL, for short), most notably for robot-facing wall and door typography.

Its upper- and lowercase variants include different combinations of cutouts and curve orientations, giving designers

flexibility when crafting robot signage. (Strictly speaking, this means that our hero’s name, correctly capitalized, is “waLL·e,” with the interpunct as a further customization Gunship’s own interpunct is rectangular.)

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Its upper- and lowercase variants include different combinations of cutouts and curve orientations, giving designers flexibility when crafting robot signage. (Strictly speaking, this means that our hero’s

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name, correctly capitalized, is “waLL·e,” with the interpunct as a further customization - Gunship’s own interpunct is rectangular.)

Informations about the movie GALAX·E 6pt

cinema release: 25.09.2008 Genre: Science Fiction Film, Family Film, Children & Family Film, Computer Animation Film, Animation & Cartoon Film FSK: from 0 Country of production: USA

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waLL-e (‚Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class‘) EVE ('Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator') M-O (‚Microbe-Obliterator‘) COMMANDANT (Captain of the Axiom) OTTO (Autopilot of the spaceship Axiom) EXCEPTIONAL BOTS (Robots of the Axiom) GO-4 (boatman of the axiom)

Bibliography Dave Addey, Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies, Harry N. Abrams, 11. Dezember 2018 Sitography Typeset in the Future, https://typesetinthefuture.com/2018/12/04/ walle/ - 04 January 2021 David Occhino Design, http://davidocchino.com/portfolio/typography/galax-e-font-art/samples.html - 19 December 2020 Typeset Gunship, https://www.dafont.com/gunship.font - 27 November 2020

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