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Titles - typewriter font and appearance?
azehavi [Avatar]
Member Joined: Oct 18, 2020 04:41 Messages: 81 Offline
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Hello,

Is it possible that titles will looked like typing in typewriter?
Thanks

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Warry [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline
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Yes. There are many ways of doing this.
Almost out of the box is:
- look for a suitable Typewriter font, if you don't already have one. There are many free to download font available
- In the title room look for the Title Magnets 02 (it is in my title set, I am not sure that it is commonly available)
- Put this title in track 2 and put a the color board white in track 1, and adjust both to the required length
- Edit the title to
- change the text to what you want it to read
- change the font to the typewrite font
- change the color to black (if indeed it is black o white typewriting you want to show)
- adjust the size and the position
- close the title editor
If you preview the result you will see that the letters flow in like they come from a typewriter.
There are other ways of resembling a typewriter, like doing the above, but select a plain title and use the title mask to make the letters appear one by one. With (a lot of) keyframing you can make the appearance of letters be less regular, as with a typewriter would happen.
You can also download a title from the director zone: https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/141201
It has a typewriter, and likely you can change the font to make it look like a typewriter font. But making your own as described above may be more fun.
Have fun.

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azehavi [Avatar]
Member Joined: Oct 18, 2020 04:41 Messages: 81 Offline
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Thank yor very much Warry for your useful detailed answer.
Could you also let me know how to add a downloaded font to the program (PD 365)?

Thanks again,
Abraham
Warry [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline
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Browse the internet for Typewriter font.
look for one that can be downloaded for free, there should be plenty
download the file. If a ZIP file unzip it
a font file can be of different types, look for the TTF extension
click on the file. Windows will recognize that it is a font and display it for you
somewhere left in the top there is a button to install the font. Click on that.
the font is installed and ready for use in any windows application including PD, you may need to restart the program.
if there are more than one TTF file for the downloaded font, install them all, so that you can opt for bold, and italic and narrow appearances when available.

As an alternative you can use COURIER font that comes with windows. It is also a so-called mono space font, all letters the same width, which is what typewriters also had. The nicety of a real typewriter font is, that the imprint of the letter is not everywhere as strong.
azehavi [Avatar]
Member Joined: Oct 18, 2020 04:41 Messages: 81 Offline
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Thanks again.
Now all works well
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