Della Robbia is a

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands ...

Thomas Maitland Cleland Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964) was an American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer. Early life and education Thomas Maitland Cleland was born August 18, 1880 in Brooklyn, New York. Cleland stu ...

(1880–1964) in 1902 for

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(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 Luca della Robbia (, also , ; 1399/1400–1482) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Della Robbia is noted for his colorful, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique which he invented and passed on to his nephew Andrea della ...

, a Florentine sculptor. It was later cast by

Lanston Monotype Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use wit ...

(1915),

Deberny & Peignot Deberny & Peignot (Fonderie Deberny et Peignot) was a French type foundry, created by the 1923 merger of G. Peignot & Fils and Deberny & Cie. It was bought by the Haas Type Foundry (Switzerland) in 1972, which in turn was merged into D. Stempel ...

(1917), and Intertype, cast as ''Westminster Oldstyle'' by

Stephenson Blake Stephenson Blake is an engineering company based in Sheffield, England. The company was active from the early 19th century as a type founder, remaining until the 1990s as the last active type foundry in Britain, since when it has diversified in ...

(1907), and cast as ''Firenze'' by Typefoundry Amsterdam. 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. It was also used as the title art for

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's semi-autobiographical film ''

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'' (2022).

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{{Reflist Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1902