"A Long Time Ago..." font - Original Trilogy

Author: andy_k_250
Time: 9-Jul-2006 8:32 PM
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I know this has been posted before, but what is the font for "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."

Also, what is the color?

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1113/userbar381851ln2.gif

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8653/userbar381853dp6.gif

Super Mario Bros. - The Wicked Star Story
"Ah, the proverbial sad sack with a wasted wish."

Author: Gillean
Time: 10-Jul-2006 8:18 AM
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If you want it exactly like the OOT then you won't have any luck without just tracing a screenshot. Digitised fonts weren't used for the crawl and titles back then, so no fonts we have now are exactly the same. Being film no one could give you an exact colour value either.

News Gothic or Trade Gothic would have been used originally, both are close enough. The new crawls use Franklin Gothic (and a different blue).

Ooh, a laserdisc. The Cheat's playin' something on a laserdisc.
Everything is better on a laserdisc. Whatever happened to the laserdisc? Laserdisc!

Author: Jaden Mason
Time: 19-Dec-2017 9:41 AM
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I found that if you’re using “Prezi” for a presentation the font is called droid sans