Della Robbia is a

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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, a Florentine sculptor. It was later cast by Lanston Monotype (1915), Deberny & Peignot (1917), and Intertype, cast as ''Westminster Oldstyle'' by Stephenson Blake (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

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, 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 '' The Fabelmans'' (2022).

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