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THIS TEMPLATE IS AN UNOFFICIAL, FAN-PRODUCED WORK AND WAS NOT PRODUCED WITH ANY INVOLVEMENT FROM CBS Studios, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Michael Okuda, OR ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED MEMBERS. THIS WORK IS NOT INTENDED TO BE BOUGHT OR SOLD IN ANY WAY.

Last Updated: August 2022

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Hey! Thanks for checking out this UNOFFICIAL template for creating custom Capsule Labels from the Star Trek franchise. The original design for the capsule label is credited entirely to Michael Okuda and the Scenic Art Department at Paramount! This template was created with a lot of sleepless nights and investigations, including an original set of decals from the production that was an incredible help as establishing some legitimacy here.

This template is intended for personal use only, and is not to be resold in any way, shape, or form. IF YOU PAID FOR THIS, REQUEST A REFUND, because it's free!!! If you use this template for something commercial, you should at least support the original designer, Michael Okuda, by following him on social media, or consider buying one of his books, especially ones currently in production such as "Star Trek: Ships of the Line!" There's a sweet book from the 90s called the Star Trek Sticker Book which has highly-accurate capsule labels in it, albiet they have less funny captions for the sake of in-universe accuracy, and it's also got great anecdotes from Michael, Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler. Highly recommended from this author.

Hey folks, I can't stress this enough, this template was NOT produced or sanctioned by Michael Okuda in any way, I just want credit to go to the man who deserves it most. Links to Michael Okuda's current and past works:
https://twitter.com/MikeOkuda
https://www.facebook.com/Michael.Denise.Okuda
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B000APB7B6?_encoding=UTF8&node=283155
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Sticker-Book/dp/0671014722

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Usage:
To easily print a bunch of production-accurate stickers, use the pre-made .pngs included in this download. All colors included are canon to the production. These stickers and colors were produced with accuracy to the stickers from post-TNG shows, like VOY, DS9, and the TNG Films. For VOY capsules, use a brushed silver foil vinyl/sticker back. For DS9 and Film-era capsules, use Gold (these were also used on VOY with the Pathfinder Project, Jupiter Station, basically any non-Voyager Starfleet ships that appeared in VOY) Both of these should have a brushed silver/gold look and it should face horizontally, not vertically. If you want to use these for standard TNG-style capsules, and don't care that the colors are a bit off, just use Glossy White sticker paper! They print all the same and look great either way.

This template is designed for a standard 8.5x11 "Letter" sheet of paper, at 600DPI. You can find gold or silver foiled sticker paper at your local hobby store (I got mine from the Silhouette brand at Michael's), but for better accuracy, order a brushed-silver or brushed-gold paper facing the long side of the paper! Make sure you override your print settings and print completely to the edges, or else the size will be off! There's enough margins for most modern printers to deal with.

"Capsule-TNGFilms-2Column-CutTemplate.png" is a provided cut template that can be used with hardware/software like Cricut or Silhouette. Again, make sure that it's touching the edges of the paper, or else it will be slightly misaligned. Use the Triangles to make sure your alignment is solid.

If you're more inclined to make your own custom decals, I've included my original Photoshop file, as well. The layers used to make these .pngs are in the "TNG - Canon Labels Printable" folder. My un-merged templates and vectors are in "TNG - Vectors and Templates." And my cut templates are in "TNG - Cut Templates." Modify these to your heart's content!

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Other Notes (Mostly relavent to people editing the Photoshop file):

- All capsule labels in Star Trek generally use one of three colors: Brown, Blue, and Red. There are some rare examples of grey and yellow ones too, but for now, I only have access to these 3 types and am claiming these shades to be "90% accurate." If anyone has some examples they'd like to let me borrow for scanning, please contact me on Twitter! I'd love to chat.

- The dividers on the capsules have a surprisingly variable width from the screen used examples I've looked at, but the 2-column divider provides a rough "90%" accuracy.

- I've pre-loaded this file with the colors from Late-Era capsule labels, i.e. VOY, Late-DS9, and the TNG Films. Inverted color labels are also provided, which are also accurate to that era and used interchangably. There's also a "ColorTest" folder which is a fun variety pack if you want to try them all out first.

- TNG capsules used a slightly different shade of Blue, Red, and Browns, so if you want to be accurate to that era, you'll have to find reference material yourself, as I don't have access to any good material yet.

- The text pre-loaded on here is all text you'd find on capsule labels. But only some are "accurate to the Late-era." I've mixed in a few TNG-era jokes, and a vew VOY/DS9-era jokes, just to fill out a full sheet. A full list of known quotes can be found on my wiki page: https://replication-ops.com/wiki/Capsule_Labels/Known_Label_Text

- This template uses Swiss911 font for it's lettering. Technically, on the shows, they used Compacta, and later Helvetica, but Swiss911 was distributed by Paramount oddly enough as the licensed Star Trek LCARS font. A more accurate version of this with a corrected font will come later. You can find this font on Github right here:
https://github.com/wrstone/fonts-startrek/raw/master/Swiss%20911%20Ultra%20Compressed%20BT.ttf 
https://github.com/wrstone/fonts-startrek

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This template was made with love by "caseytube" for personal use only, and is freely distributed for use by fan productions and replica makers. I'm active on Twitter, and also have a Ko-fi if you wish to support the work I do, but please consider supporting Michael Okuda first before me. I'm just a Photoshop and printing gremlin, he's the real artist!
https://twitter.com/caseytube
https://ko-fi.com/caseytube

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THIS TEMPLATE IS AN UNOFFICIAL, FAN-PRODUCED WORK AND WAS NOT PRODUCED WITH ANY INVOLVEMENT FROM CBS Studios, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Michael Okuda, OR ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED MEMBERS. THIS WORK IS NOT INTENDED TO BE BOUGHT OR SOLD IN ANY WAY.

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