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Foundation Titles Hand

Hand-drawn font of the character design used in the title sequence of the Foundation series. A semibold version is included.

Foundation, the Apple TV+ show made from the Isaac Asimov books (of which only four episodes had been released when this font was first published), uses a number of fonts with related design for the logo, on-screen text, in-scene signage and the title credits. Only in the last of these are most letters represented.

Foundation’s title sequence was created by Imaginary Forces, a Los Angeles design studio and creative agency (imaginaryforces.com), and presumably IF created the specific design used for names in the title credits. In this font, I have hand-drawn the characters seen on-screen, excepting Q, which does not appear; that is my invention. Lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols and punctuation (other than & and . and ,) are also not used, hence their omission here initially. [Note: Until authoritative designs appear, the fonts will rely on "compatible conjectures" for practicality. Preliminary versions of the main non-letter glyphs in the Basic Latin Unicode block have been constructed and kerned, and the 0.85 version of both fonts includes them.]

The source .ifm2archive files are in the file format used by iFontMaker, the iPad font-design tool made by Eiji and Tom, Inc., which you can find at 2ttf.com.

This font is released under the OFL, the SIL Open Font License.

To download the related OFL font based on the type design used in Foundation to indicate changes in time (e.g., "17 YEARS AFTER THE STARBRIDGE BOMBING") or location ("DWARF PLANET AETHRA"), visit the Foundation One repo here on GitHub.

A font based on the Foundation Logo is also in progress, and a font based on the type design seen on computer screens in Foundation is planned.

To install Foundation Titles on an iPhone or iPad, use the command “Install (for iOS)” at 2ttf.com/JbTu7kcPduW. You may have to use Safari for this to work.

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