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The font of "far, far away"?

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Hi! I was wondering if anyone could tell me the font used for “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”? At the beginning of the movies, and if you want to be extra helpful, how to download/recreate it.

Thank-you in advance.

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There is more info on the fonts and crawls etc of Star Wars here - link - and then just scroll down to ‘Some useful Star Wars font and crawl info’ - there are also some links to some free font download sites.

This thread may be of some interest as well - ‘Recreating “A long time ago”’ - link

Hope you find the info you are looking for - or someone with a lot more knowledge than me on this will be along to help you soon.
 

The font used for the newer Star Wars film is apparently Franklin Gothic - for the 1977 Star Wars ‘News Gothic’ or ‘Trade Gothic’ hybrid seemingly used (as it was on film there was no ‘set’ font used at the time…)

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com - includes info on how to ask for a fan project and how to search for projects and threads on OT•com.

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

Take your time to look around this site before posting… Do NOT just lazily make yet another ‘link request’ post - or a new thread asking for projects.

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This thread might also be useful for you, but I’m not sure if they talk specifically about the font of “A long time ago” in there.