Font suggestion for intertitle?

[träskmannen]

I am making a black and white silent movie, and I am looking for a nice free font to use for the intertitles (is that the right phrase for the text boards?). I like Silentina, but I do this to help a relative, for free of course, and since I am a cheap bastard I do not feel like paying for a font just to help him out.

Has anyone got a suggestion?

[Bjs]

Look for yourself : http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Fonts/ ...
As you say "since I am a cheap bastard" and "just to help him out"

My favourite is : http://www.freefonts.co.in/ ... shows previews .

I have a pack of 300 nice looking font's I use for dvd all the time .

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[träskmannen]

Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

I was hoping for a suggestion of a specific font that someone else had used for this purpose. There are so many free fonts available that I find it very difficult to find a good one - it is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack.

[daamon]

Get your relative to look through the many fonts here: www.dafont.com (and at any other suggested sites) and, when they've found one they like, let you know so you can use it.

I've never done a project like yours, so can't suggest a choice of fonts. Sorry.

Check out the winner of VideoHelp's 2005 Short Film Competition - that uses nice titles.

[AlanHK]

Sounds like you want an Art Deco font.

Browse through the "retro" fonts at http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=115.
These are all free fonts.

[Bjs]

At that site I linked , I got rather partially interested in

armalite , zero , Ziperhea , Zombie , Zorque , Zurichi , Yarborough , Yataghan , Xband Rough , Xerox Malfunction , Xylograph , Warlock , Weatherd , Webster , Westminstergotisch , Witchcraft Normal , Woodplnk , Vademecu , Vanilla , Viking N , Vinque , Vivacs , Vivaldii , Vtc Nightofthewackeddead ... just a few for black and white usage .

As for the looking in the haystack ... that's the problem isnt it .

You want to find something agreeable to both parties involved ... and even one you thing work's , may not actually look all the well once the dvd is played back .

It took me a while to cull it down to the better 300 fonts pack which I use for mine .

[träskmannen]

Thanks for the tips and hints, I think we will go for either a font called Bellerose or one called Noir et Blanc.

and even one you thing work's , may not actually look all the well once the dvd is
played back .

Good point - I will make a test-DVD of a few intertitles with both fonts and see if they live up to our expectations. If none of them do we will use Bookman Old Style.

[stovk]

I know this is an OLD post, but for someone who may be looking for this same information, I found these Fonts that work well as an Intertitle.

http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/30288/Silentina_Film
http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/30289/Silentina_Movie
http://www.fontyukle.net/en/1,Berliner+Grotesk

Cheers!