Romantiques Free Vintage Display Font & Web Font by Dieter Steffmann
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Decorated letters from the Period of French Romanticism of the Fonderie Typographique Francais, Paris XV.
This font is offered in TrueType (TTF) & OpenType (OTF), as well as the current Web Open Font Formats (WOFF or WOFF2). This is an artistic circus 3D signage style multilingual, hand-lettered, print script showing a Roman Slab Serif in the upper letter half, seemingly unwrapped by a victorian font in the lower half of each letter. This is an all-caps display font, though the capitals have been copied to the lowercase register for ease of use. Numerals are also included, but there is no punctuation, accents, symbols, dingbats, or any other what-nots. This version of the font is the initial release at version 1.000, originally released in 2002 (there is an updated version of this font, details are given below).
This is a free font (never to be sold) released for public use by Dieter Steffmann. This font (and extra duplicate versions in other other font formats) is OK for commercial use, even as a web font (#webfont). No derivatives are allowed.
DESIGNER:
Dieter Steffmann.
A FREE FONT FAMILY
The authoring artist, Dieter Steffmann, has very little restrictions on the use of his free fonts (so, personal/commercial/charity work is OK, and you may use it as a #webfont, too), EXCEPT that he maintains his full Copyright worldwide, and therefore these fonts should not be modified or otherwise used to create a derivative font, and that the fonts should never be sold. The fonts in this archive are offered 'as is' without any warranty. This has been a quick synopsis on authorized use, more info is given under the DETAILS section, below.
The "Romantiques" (highly decorative Roman/Victorian display font) was created by Dieter Steffmann in 2002. The version 1.0 of that font included in this distribution archive is the initial release, but that font was updated in 2012 to become "DS Romantiques" and likely offers better compatibility when embedding in PDF files.
This font is an extremely well-crafted vintage 3D slab style that resembles roman signage lettering on the top of each character, with a highly decorative, romanticized, florally embellished (victorian style?) lower half of each character. The resulting marriage of the very two different styles is remarkably stunning and would lend itself well to any vintage style logotype, signage, title or advertising headline.
This set of fonts/webfonts comes in multiple font formats; TrueType (the file with the *.ttf file extension), OpenType (*.otf extension), Web Open Font Format (*.woff file extension), and Web Open Font Format v. 2 (the *.woff2 file extension). Not all computer platforms support TrueType, but since Google uses that format for its web fonts exclusively, that and the 2 WOFF web font formats are widely supported for online connected devices. The OpenType version was downloaded from Dieter Steffmann's official archive catalog (link given farther below).
ARCHIVE ORIGINATION:
The original version distribution archive was originally an incomplete archive on Font-Journal in 2009 because it was missing the OpenType version, but that archive has now been updated completely with text sample images, this documentation, and a new variety of font formats.
The newer updated version is effectively 2.0, but uses a new reserved font name, "DS Romantiques." Since this updated font doesn't seem to be available as an OpenType font (none that I could find) with advanced features, this older archive is still available and quite useful.
NOTE: This is free software, provided as-is, flaws or not. If you do have trouble, contact me, let me know the issue, and I will see what I can do.
This text document has been created specifically for distribution with this font archive as a researched factual document intended to protect all parties. Any updates to this font (under this reserved font name) or its distribution archive can be found at the dedicated Font-Journal URL for this distribution archive given a couple of paragraphs below.
This archive was specifically enhanced with this note as a means to document the great works Dieter Steffmann has contributed to the world. This is done in the hopes that he will always be credited for his wonderful gifts to humanity, as many of his original distribution archives lack any documentation what-so-ever (the license was given on the web page it was downloaded from, but then the license can be lost when a designer has a lot of fonts). Hopefully, it will also serve to help protect his work from modifications and derivatives.
This archive has a home page at Font-Journal where this (or any updated version of this font) can be found at the following URL...
https://www.font-journal.com/fonts/10415/romantiques.php
Short Link:
https://w3n.us/romantiques
Again, the new '2.000' version may fix a bug with PDF embedding. It can be accessed at the following URL(s)...
https://www.font-journal.com/fonts/13655/ds_romantiques.php
Short Link:
https://w3n.us/dsromantiques
Please note that Dieter Steffmann has a great many free downloadable typefaces available at Font-Journal. To view all of his fonts that I have added to the font repository so far you can search his name (or use the URL below):
https://www.font-journal.com/search.php?d=1&q=Dieter+Steffmann
Note also, that Mr. Steffmann created a large volume of free fonts (over 600). I have much to do to include and document each one of his fonts (both the ones I will add and the older ones that have previously been archived before I started documenting each one).
WHY THIS ARCHIVE?
Perhaps Dieter Steffmann didn't include documentation in his distribution archives since he made them freely available to the public without much restriction on regular use and the license was specified on the download page. But then the license gets separated from the archive and as a designer myself, I like to retain proof that a free font I downloaded is as such (a free font with its conditions of use). It will take me a while, but I will be working to get them all updated with a text sample gif & documentation, eventually. Still, it's going to take a long time, as I administrate Font-Journal as a free online font repository and cataloged font archive only in my spare time, currently without assistance.
Dieter Steffman
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Is a widely talented, retired typographer living in Duetschland (AKA: Germany). Specifically, he lives in the township of Kreuztal in the Siegerland region of DE (DE is the country code abbreviation for Germany). He started computing on the Amiga (as did I). He currently has some health concerns that he shares on his Wordpress blog. He enjoys web administration, photography and hiking, now. He also posts some great photos. Dieter is also quite active on Twitter and maybe Facebook. Dieter Steffman's business alias is "Typographer Mediengestaltung" and he created hundreds of fonts between 2000-2013 that are now available free.
Birthday:
September 3rd
Email:
dieter@steffmann.de
Website:
http://www.steffmann.de
Twitter Feed: @DieterSteffmann
https://twitter.com/DieterSteffmann
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dieter.steffmann
Dieter Steffmann's official font archive is at:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/
1001 Fonts has cataloged 357 of his over 600 free typefaces:
https://steffmann.1001fonts.com
...but as noted, those archives lack the inclusion of documentation and a simple preview gif. As I prefer to keep that the license info, documentation and a preview image are both included with my archives so that as a designer I can always reference this information should I require it (such as when some scammer comes along and pretends the font is theirs and threatens a fake 'Copyright infingement' shake-down law suit simply hoping to scare out some money from the ignorant or disorganized).
This journaling methodology gives professional graphic designers and marketers an easy way to prove that a typeface is free and OK for commercial use, as well as learn a little of the history about the author, if they want, without too much trouble. All they have to do is keep the original archive somewhere (in case the website goes offline when the Google server monopoly on internet infrastructure dependency takes the world's internet down again). I recommend keeping the archive in a local directory on your computer as well as online with the hosting account directory for any website you use it on as a webfont.
DETAILS
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
All Fonts...
Copyright (c) Typographer Mediengestaltung, 2002. All rights reserved.
TERMS OF USE:
By using this font you hereby agree to the terms of this license agreement as put forth in this document.
CONDITIONS OF USE:
Personal use is allowed.
Charity work is allowed.
Commercial use is allowed.
No derivatives are allowed.
-This means that you may not edit the font, modify the glyphs, extend the font character sets, or change the reserved font name using the source font file.
CONVERSION:
You may convert this font for use in other formats, or for use on other device platforms, so long as the font remains intact and is not modified or otherwise altered in any way, such as changing the reserved font names or altering any individual glyphs.
AS-IS DIGITAL SOFTWARE:
This typeface is distributed 'as is' without any warranty. Neither the author of this typeface, nor any distributing party, shall be held liable for any damage derived from using this typeface.
DISTRIBUTION:
You may redistribute this/these font(s), unchanged, preferably in its original archive as freeware, but the font may not be modified and you may not sell it, nor are you allowed to include it in any font archive, collection, distribution CD or DVD that is sold for monetary gain or bartered (keep it free). Any means of benefitting from the distribution of this archive is strictly forbidden. On distribution websites, this font must be available to all visitors for no charge, this includes sans membership fees or subscription requirement.
The included font(s) may not ever be sold or published in any form without the expressed written permission by its respective author, Dieter Steffman.
EMBEDDING:
The included font(s) may be embedded into any application such as a website, home page, PDF document, or mobile device app, independent of the number of the application users, as long as the application itself does not intend to distribute the font file(s) independent of its proper distribution archive.
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