Bebas Centipede Font

Bebas Centipede is a font developed by Dozerfleet Labs in May of 2018. Originally aimed at being the new official font for all Ciem-related media, it expanded in scope to become a display font that anyone could use for any project that involves an emphasis on centipedes making up letters of the alphabet.

History
As early artwork in 2015 for what would become the Centipede and Fire Saga was being developed in The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, it soon became clear that a new font needed to exist that would simplify the process of making Ciem title displays. This need actually dates all the way back to early Ciem media having font logo issues, way back in 2005.

Back then, simple fonts were rasterized, then had centipedes added to them. Logos were saved as PNG or JPG files, with everything meticulously stylized in each file. This quickly led to very cluttered designs, and poor marketing. By 2007, it had been standardized to use Copperplate Gothic Bold as a default font for making stylized Ciem logos. Legs and antennae were added to some of these display labels, creating the pseudo-font "Copperplate Centipede." While the Classic Gerosha Ciem comic series made its designs with a lot of Sam Raimi Spider-Man film style envy, adding legs to Copperplate variants made more sense than trying to create a centipede-themed font that could compare to Raimi's use of a font from 1997 (that was in-turn inspired by artwork by Smashing Pumpkins.)

When Classic Gerosha gave way to Comprehensive Gerosha in 2010, Copperplate was abandoned in favor of Charlemagne. While this new look did somewhat differentiate Charlemagne Centipede from Copperplate Centipede, in order to generate a new universe feel; neither of these was a proper new font file for download. They were simply adding legs in Photoshop to existing fonts.

By 2015, it soon became clear that a new font would be needed - inspired by previous fonts; but its own thing. After discovering Calligraphr in 2018, Dozerfleet Labs set out toward its utilization for purposes of making a new font. Bebas Neue was seen as a perfect starting point for inspiration. Instead of simply using Photoshop to make logos, however, elaborate files were generated using Adobe Illustrator in correspondence with Photoshop to embed each letter into its proper position. The resulting file was then sent to Calligraphr, which made the necessary conversions to create each letter to a vector-scalable image in OTF and TTF format.

Bebas Centipede was born, replacing classic Ciem logos with the new standard letter I shaped like a centipede. While not particularly good at representing numbers nor parentheses, basic lettering worked splendidly in the new font. It was released in May of 2018 to MediaFire and 1001 Fonts, and later saw its MediaFire link hosted to the Dozerfleet Labs official blog on Blogger in 2020.

Characters
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Limitations

 * Only the characters listed above are featured in the font. Spanish characters, such as ñ, and other accented characters, are missing.  Basic numbers and parentheses also don't work, and will default to some other font.
 * As such, this font is only recommended for use in writing English-titled works that require centipedes to make up the letters.
 * The stylized Ciem centipede logos are not included in this font, for trademark protection purposes. As such, a more generic letter I centipede is used.  When making Ciem art labels, however, it's often advisable to obtain the Ciem logo from elsewhere, and find a clever way to substitute the letter I with that centipede logo wherever appropriate.