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Check out StarWars.com, and type in whatever you want to say after the famous 'A long time ago, in a galaxy, far far away' text. Then watch it scroll in glorious yellow font, complete with the. Star Wars Font The font primarily practised in Star war movie was 100% hand-drawn. And with time it got improvements and get more charming aspects. This Sci-Fi font originally used in the movie was “Star Jedi” designed by Boba Fonts. All six films from the Lucas era use the Gothic/Univers font. The first three films used sophisticated camera work to produce the crawl. When The Phantom Menace came along, Star Wars legend John Knoll came up with a new way to get them on screen so they matched the original crawl. Now that every Star Wars movie starts with a famous line says ‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away’ in a purple or cool blue font color. Once upon a time – the tagline lettering of Star Wars typeface originally created by hand.
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While the D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan might beg to differ, I’m of the firm belief that the original Star Wars has the most iconic opening of any movie ever made. There’s just something about the combination of the scrolling text and John Williams’ legendary score that never fails to get me amped up for some intergalactic shenanigans.
The credits set the stage for the events that take place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” which is about as vague of a description as you’ll ever come across. Thankfully, one man took it upon himself to calculate exactly how long “long ago” really is, because hardcore Star Wars fans will not rest until they discover every single detail about the movie’s universe.
Patrick Johnson is the author of The Physics of Star Wars: The Science Behind a Galaxy Far, Far Away, a book that attempts to provide real-world explanations for the fictional universe depicted onscreen. Wired published an excerpt in which Johnson explains how he came to his conclusion, saying:
The first galaxies were formed around a billion years after the big bang, so that cuts out a billion years. The films depict many star systems with mature planets and intelligent life. It took the solar system about 500 million years to form, and it formed 4.6 billion years ago, so it’s reasonable to assume that Star Wars is about 5 billion years after the formation of the first galaxy.
Based on his calculations, Johnson estimates the events of Star Wars take place 4.7 billion years before modern times, which makes “long ago” a bit of an understatement. If you want to get way too deep into the science of Star Wars, I suggest reading the entire article.
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When I was eight years old, I had one of the most formative typographic experiences of my life. I would only have five more like it: three, six, 22, 25, and now 28 years later (in other words, just after midnight tonight). Of course I’m referring to my first glimpse of the opening titles of Star Wars, way back in 1977. Not having seen a lot of old Flash Gordon serials, I had never seen a movie start off like this.
Everyone (okay, every Star Wars fan) remembers the seemingly endless opening shot, in which a very small spaceship is chased by a very big spaceship. And everyone (okay, every Star Wars fanatic) knows that those two ships were Princess Leia’s Rebel Blockade Runner and Darth Vader’s Imperial Star Destroyer. But before those ships ever showed up on screen, I knew something was different about this movie.
There were no names of actors, producers or even the director — no credits of any kind. All I saw were these motionless yet evocative words in blue Trade Gothic (since changed to Franklin Gothic — see below), then a very cool logo (designed by Suzy Rice of Seiniger Advertising) flying away from the camera, and finally a monumental opening crawl that set up the story and stretched into deep space. Cool.
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I often cringe when George Lucas goes back and makes a change to the old movies (Han shot first!), but some changes do make sense. The movie I saw in 1977 was just called Star Wars. Now that it’s a part of a larger story, it’s called Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and its opening crawl was updated to reflect that change. So why not fix the horrendous word spacing? I guess in the Star Wars universe it’s not just the Force that lasts forever.
Update — Jan 12, 2014: Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the films, recently posted a photo of the crawl in production:
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