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It's Not Pastel, But It's Close

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Precode

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Dec 8, 2003, 7:08:28 PM12/8/03
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I found a free download for the Della Robbia font here:

http://www.depotz.net/fonts/ttf_d.html

Scroll down about halfway.

Mike S.

DShepFilm

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Dec 8, 2003, 11:52:50 PM12/8/03
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<< I found a free download for the Della Robbia font here >>

Della Robbia was often used in silent film intertitles.

A computer version of Pastel is called New Era.

David Shepard

Rodney Sauer

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Dec 9, 2003, 10:33:56 AM12/9/03
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dshe...@aol.com (DShepFilm) wrote in message news:<20031208235250...@mb-m02.aol.com>...

Unfortunately, I've never been able to find "New Era" for love nor
money. And the "Della Robbia" ttf on that Brazilian web site seems to
contain the Bitstream copyright line, so it's probably pirated, for
those of you who are concerned about such things...

Rodney Sauer
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
www.mont-alto.com

ChaneyFan

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Dec 10, 2003, 1:43:33 AM12/10/03
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>>>I found a free download for the Della Robbia font here:
http://www.depotz.net/fonts/ttf_d.html

Has anyone been successful in actually getting to this site? I have tried for
2 days and it keeps saying "Site Not Responding."
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Jon Mirsalis
e-mail: Chan...@aol.com
Lon Chaney Home Page: http://members.aol.com/ChaneyFan
Jon's Film Sites: http://members.aol.com/ChaneyFan/jonfilm.htm

Christopher Jacobs

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Dec 10, 2003, 2:18:11 AM12/10/03
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rod...@mont-alto.com (Rodney Sauer) wrote in message news:<cc9b8bb9.03120...@posting.google.com>...
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Della Robbia was included with my Corel Draw/Photopaint suite, as was
ITC Newtext, which also looks very close to Pastel (even closer, if
you asked me). Too many people try to pass off Benguiat or Korinna as
a silent movie typeface and although they vaguely suggest the style,
they just don't quite work. If you don't mind all caps and small caps,
Copperplate will do in a pinch. Cheltenham is another font on the disk
and is a very common early 20th century font that was used in numerous
newspaper ads for movies, and I believe also for title cards,
especially in its bold condensed form.

--Christopher Jacobs
http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/cjacobs/Website/DarkHighways-home.htm
http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/cjacobs/Website/PosterGallery.htm
http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/cjacobs/Website/DigitalMovies.htm
http://www.hpr1.com/movies.htm

Early Film

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Dec 10, 2003, 6:25:20 AM12/10/03
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Jon asks:

>>>>I found a free download for the Della Robbia font here:
> http://www.depotz.net/fonts/ttf_d.html
>
>Has anyone been successful in actually getting to this site? I have tried
>for 2 days and it keeps saying "Site Not Responding."
>


Jon,

Uh, it would be an understatement to say the site is flaky and rather slow, but
it will open.

I had better luck going in through their home page,

http://www.depotz.net/

selecting [font] then the letter [D] and then right clicking on Della Robbia.

After all the work of getting there, you don't want to crash it by accidentally
left clicking....

I just double checked before posting this message and it opened fine for me.
(Win95, AOL 5.0 on a Cyrix P200 w/dialup)

Better brush up on your Portuguese before going there.

It is a good source for fonts!

Earl.

Merlin Null

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Dec 10, 2003, 4:18:08 PM12/10/03
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On 10 Dec 2003 06:43:33 GMT, chan...@aol.com (ChaneyFan) wrote:

>>>>I found a free download for the Della Robbia font here:
>http://www.depotz.net/fonts/ttf_d.html
>
>Has anyone been successful in actually getting to this site? I have tried for
>2 days and it keeps saying "Site Not Responding."

Yes, with a DSL line it is quite slow. Better to check
late night. I just did a check at 12:44 PM Pacific Time
and it was a very slow connect, but it did load. I also
just downloaded a font to test speed and got 1.35 KB per
second. Fortunately, font files are not large, so the
slow speed can be endured.

This is a hugh repository of fonts, but the ones I checked
are bare fonts, with no documentation, And I have to
download the font to see what it looks like.

I also just tried another font site:

http://www.dingbatpages.com/alien/alien.html

And downloaded the Alienator font at 51.5 KB per second.
The are a lot of font sites out there, but I found
quite a few dead links to other font sites on the ones
that are still active.

Bob Null

J. Theakston

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Dec 10, 2003, 4:48:12 PM12/10/03
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dshe...@aol.com (DShepFilm) wrote in message news:<20031208235250...@mb-m02.aol.com>...

Another one is due out soon via a friend of mine who makes fonts for
profession. The set will include the alternate faces (lower "k" and
the upper "W").

-J. Theakston

David P. Hayes

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Dec 10, 2003, 5:57:16 PM12/10/03
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"ChaneyFan" <chan...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031210014333...@mb-m13.aol.com...

> >>>I found a free download for the Della Robbia font here:
> http://www.depotz.net/fonts/ttf_d.html
>
> Has anyone been successful in actually getting to this site? I have tried
for
> 2 days and it keeps saying "Site Not Responding."

I had no problem downloading on the first or second try, mid-day weekday, on
a connection that doesn't get faster than 31K. This was shortly after the
original post (which was 12/8/03).

--
David Hayes

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