Della Robbia (typeface)

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Della Robbia is a typeface designed by Thomas Maitland Cleland (1880–1964) in 1902 for American Type Founders (ATF). It was designed to be a careful and scholarly creation of a typeface from 15th Century Florentine inscriptional capitals. It was named after Luca Della Robbia, a Florentine sculptor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/della-robbia/|title=Della Robbia™ - Webfont & Desktop font « MyFonts|website=www.myfonts.com|access-date=2016-12-15}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcnMDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1622|title=Classic Typefaces: American Type and Type Designers|last=Consuegra|first=David|date=2011-10-10|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.|isbn=9781621535829|language=en}}

It was later cast by Lanston Monotype (1915), Deberny & Peignot (1917), and Intertype, cast as Westminster Oldstyle by Stephenson Blake (1907),{{Cite book|title=Encyclopædia of Type Faces|author=W. Turner Berry and A. F. Johnson|publisher=Blandford Press|date=1953|pages= 142–143}}

and cast as Firenze by Typefoundry Amsterdam.MacGrew, Mac, American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, {{ISBN|0-938768-34-4}}, pp. 116 + 117, and Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces, Blandford Press Lts., 1983, {{ISBN|0-7137-1347-X}}, p. 240.

The font is used in the credits for digitally remastered versions of seasons 14 to 17 of the television series Doctor Who, replacing the original font used by the BBC, Cantoria.{{Cite web |url=http://www.millenniumeffect.co.uk/other/fonts/series_closing_titles.php |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-10-15 |archive-date=2018-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015232921/http://www.millenniumeffect.co.uk/other/fonts/series_closing_titles.php |url-status=dead }} It was also used as the title art for Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans (2022).