TV typography in ArcMap – The Walking Dead

Here I’ll show you how to create typography similar to walking dead’s title scenes.

Here’s what the typography in the title scenes for walking dead looks like.

Here’s what you can do in ArcMap.

This is possible with the use of formatting tags.

If you want to try this yourself, go over to www.dafont.com and download steelfish.

Once, you have steelfish installed, fire up ArcMap. In ArcMap, change your background color to black and add some text in the data frame. Or just add a black rectangle in the layout, then some text on top of that. I find it a little easier to work in the layout for stuff like this.

Now, in the text properties window paste the following block of code.

<wrd spacing=”110″><acp><clr yellow=”25″ black=”10″><fnt name=”Steelfish Rg” size=”35″>the walking dead <chr spacing=”10″><bol>title scene</bol></chr></fnt> <fnt name=”Steelfish Rg” size=”25″>and</fnt> <fnt name=”Steelfish Rg” size=”35″><chr spacing=”10″><bol>typographic style</bol></chr></fnt></clr></acp></wrd>

Through a combination of different color, font, character, bold, all caps, and word tags, The Walking Dead typography can be created in ArcMap!