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Opera lyrics font, developed from 19th century opera scores. It uses tight spacing, retains a broken (hand-stamped on engraver plates) character, and is bold enough for any classic musical score. (As of 3/2010, only the Roman version is available.)

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Opera-Lyrics Smooth
opera-lyrics-smooth.ttf Opera-Lyrics Smooth (Version 1.65 Se) — View Font Info 261 characters — View All

6 Comments

  • Good font, it helped me with my project , Thanks smiley
  • kalvos
    Sophie945 (and others): Would anyone be seriously interested in an Italic version? I have some italic text from those old scores, but would have to do some research to recreate a full set.
  • fontologist
    @kalvos I don't know about anyone else, but I would be interested! I like old letterpress/broadsheet style fonts.
  • kalvos
    I'll work on it this summer. Thanks for your note ... the lyrics were punched on metal plates one at a time, so they are marvelously inconsistent from word to word.
  • Dear Kalvos,

    thanks so much for this wonderful font. I use it a lot for written music (it adds a certain "serious" touch to my leadsheets and parts) - and my artwork (advertising for old-fashioned concerts). It's perfect!

    Cheers,
    Mark.
  • kalvos
    Mark,

    Thanks very much. I've been surprised how much interest there has been. It's appeared not only in musical scores, but in posters & on book covers & even on Facebook memes. A nice response.

    If there are any updates for it, they will be via maltedmedia.com/bathory/ first.

    Dennis
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Created using FontCreator 5.6 from High-Logic.com

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Opera-Lyrics © 2009 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz. Released by maltedMedia for noncommercial use under Creative Commons license.

Version

Version 1.65 September 30, 2009, public release