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As best as I've been able to match visually (and thanks to starwars.com at least identifying the correct typeface families), I think I have the right fonts. The correct movie title font is Univers Light Ultra Condensed. It is distinctive for its very tall, skinny letters. The rest of the crawl is in News Gothic Standard Bold. News Gothic is most easily distinguished from many incorrect fonts that are used by looking at the bottom of a lowercase g: it should be a closed oval, not a hook. The Univers title font should be 2.8 times the size of the News Gothic text in the crawl. The Episode number line above the title, although the same News Gothic font as the body text, is 1.3 times larger.
I have a 2D template (for creating crawls for Jedi Outcast/Jedi Academy where the game engine does the 3D part) which was made by "tracing" the Episode IV crawl on de-perspectivized screencaps of the actual crawls that were available at theforce.net. By making my text overlap the original exactly, I'm reasonably confident of accuracy. here's a rendering from my template that might be helpful to some. My advice is to replicate a movie crawl exactly and then change the text to your project. It pretty much has to be right after that!
LucasArts and their partners almost never get it right in Star Wars games so anyone else who hasn't is in good company.
jk, let me know if you need another frame differently worded or revised in any way.