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(x) 'Sparrows' silent movie intertitle - various {gang}
Posted by dot_s in
3 Oct 2004 — 8:34am
3 Oct 2004 — 8:34am
I am hoping there is a digital font similar--if not identical--to this intertitle from the 1926 Mary Pickford film 'Sparrows'...
(I am quite fond of the lc 'a' and 'e'.)
edit: I typically use MeyerTwo for my intertitle reproductions, but this one is quite different
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3 Oct 2004 — 10:09am
I'd have a look through the stuff at http://www.nicksfonts.com/.
3 Oct 2004 — 10:45am
It seems that all the fonts I crave can be found at Nick's...
Thank you so much for your quick reply!
3 Oct 2004 — 11:20am
Actually, Ray Larabie has a better version of this 'silent movie' font he created just for this purpose called Silentina: http://www.typodermic.com/fonts/23.html
Stuart :D
3 Oct 2004 — 12:51pm
Oh my word, Silentina.
"I do so sweetly apologize, Mr MeyerTwo, though it does seem you have been replaced.'
3 Oct 2004 — 7:41pm
Ray's Silentina appears to be based partly on an old BB&S face called Pastel. I learned about Pastel when a guy contacted me a year or two ago wanting to know what font was used for the intertitles in a particular film he was restoring. Silentina Film matches the intertitles this guy showed me pretty well. The main difference from Pastel is in the caps and punctuation.
3 Oct 2004 — 8:26pm
I am unsure if any one is interested, or--perhaps--this is old hat: That Silent Film Intertitle Font
3 Oct 2004 — 8:40pm
Yes, I was curious. Thank you. Btw, I have been looking for silent film era type that has a swash lc 'r', 'v' and 'w'. I may have to scan a sketch and post it in a new thread...
3 Oct 2004 — 9:08pm
I am unsure if any one is interested, or--perhaps--this is old hat: That Silent Film Intertitle Font
Well, small world. That's the guy who contacted me about the font. I wondered if Silentina was more than a coincidence. Those scans of Pastel he has on that page were sent to him by me. I was too busy at the time to do anything with it. Obviously, he got tired of waiting for me to do something with it and had better luck with Ray. Oh, well.
4 Oct 2004 — 5:32am
I do apologize for using this thread as a personal reference for intertitle look-a-likes, though Cantoria also seems to have intertitle qualities.
Edit: I would like to express my deepest gratitude for passing along the friend known as Silentina. Sixteen hours and twenty-four dollars later, I could be described as participating in the Inter Fondness of Titled Bliss.
5 Oct 2004 — 9:59am
I'm currently working on titling a silent film myself, so I've been studying the various types used. Silentina is an excellent match for the type which was commonly used, but there were others. I've seen Parsons and Hunt Speedball lettering used often as well. Camelot Oldstyle is also an excellent candidate, as well as the Meyer and Cantoria already mentioned. Some, if not many, silent films had hand-lettered titles, often done in the style of Fred Cooper.
5 Oct 2004 — 10:03am
Post Monotone, or a variation on it, also has the right feel, IMHO.
5 Oct 2004 — 10:20am
While not worthy of Mark Simonson's ever excellent 'Typecasting', it bothers me to no end that in the restoration of G.W. Pabst's 'Diary of a Lost Girl' (released by Kino Int'l), Glorietta was used in the descriptive intertitles, as well as the usage of Cezanne to represent Thymiane's handwriting.
I just needed an appropriate place to vent my irritation.
5 Oct 2004 — 10:28am
Many thanks for all these options, Andrew. I do suspect that I would seem obsessed if every reproduction I produced was set in Silentina.