Nintendo Switch 3D Box Images - Uniformity of Spine Titles

[jjsparx]

Hi,

I'm the person who's been adding a lot of Switch games to the games database recently (6700 changes so far, nearly all Switch related).

I have been working on the "perfect" high realism Nintendo Switch 3D box that's based on @Arcanthur 's amazing work.

I have finally finished the template and am now ready to replace the 560 3D boxes I've already submitted in recent weeks, plus there's another 300 I'm still working on.

I'm planning on making the spine titles all exactly the same - alignment-wise, font-wise and case-wise.

So, right now, I'm going for the MARK PRO BOLD font in all CAPS - I honestly don't like how the lower case letters look and some titles are all caps anyway. I don't want to have to double check if a title uses caps or not, so they can all be caps which will speed up the process by a lot!

There are 2 polls, one for the position of the title and one for the case of the title - please feel free to vote and let me know.

Also, if anyone has any requests for covers and cases, leave a comment and I'll add them to my (long) list.

Many thanks in advance!

A few visual examples:

CAPS CENTRED:

 

LOWER CASE CENTRED:

CAPS INDENTED (TOP):

LOWER CASE INDENTED (TOP):

CAPS TOP (DIRECTLY UNDER THE SWITCH LOGO):

LOWER CASE TOP (DIRECTLY UNDER THE SWITCH LOGO):

EXAMPLE OF A LONGER TITLE IN CAPS (FOR A BETTER IDEA OF THE FONT):

EXAMPLE OF A LONGER TITLE IN LOWER CASE (FOR A BETTER IDEA OF THE FONT):

 

 

[C-Beats]

Personally not sure how this is even a choice. Use the Nintendo Switch case art guidelines. All caps directly under the logo

[jjsparx]

Got it, that was my planned choice.

[neil9000]

2 hours ago, C-Beats said:

Personally not sure how this is even a choice. Use the Nintendo Switch case art guidelines. All caps directly under the logo

Thats not how real boxes are though.

[C-Beats]

3 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Thats not how real boxes are though.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo requires any licensed Switch release to have the case artwork done that way. I don't have any Switch game where that isn't how it's done.

[neil9000]

All mine are centered, plus its a mixture of all caps and not, even for Nintendo games themselves, Donkey Kong and Skyward Sword are all caps, Mario Kart, Ring Fit etc are not.

[C-Beats]

1 minute ago, neil9000 said:

All mine are centered, plus its a mixture of all caps and not, even for Nintendo games themselves, Donkey Kong and Skyward Sword are all caps, Mario Kart, Ring Fit etc are not.

That may be a regional thing then. I have several of the games in your stack in NA and all of them are top aligned with the same font all caps.

[C-Beats]

Got to say, after looking at them though I do prefer the NA spines. So much cleaner and easier to read/see if you have the games on a shelf and are looking for a certain one lol

[neil9000]

Just now, C-Beats said:

That may be a regional thing then. I have several of the games in your stack in NA and all of them are top aligned with the same font all caps.

Interesting, thought you was a madman when i saw your post and had to double check mine, but there they are, all centered and a mixture of capitalization.  

[C-Beats]

Just now, neil9000 said:

Interesting, thought you was a madman when i saw your post and had to double check mine, but there they are, all centered and a mixture of capitalization.  

lol yeah, I did a double check on mine after seeing your image, made sure I was hallucinating or something. I have several of the games listed though and mine definitely don't look like that.

[spycat]

I believe that the various NTSC regions are all top aligned, whereas the PAL regions are centred.