Thanks very much cassavetes, yes that's the one. I'll try contacting Steve.

All the best,
Dene.

you're quite welcome.

Sorry but I guess missed the answer. I too would like to get the Columbo font. Can anyone direct me?

Thanks!

adam, you may be on the threaded style. if you switch to the board style you'll see a thread entitled 'columbo font update' a few threads down.

The original run of the series in the '70s used Helvetica, or something very close to it. Standard Helvetica Bold, with a 2 point stroke and stretched horizontally, is a very close match; but there are dozens of variations of Helvetica (along with a lot of ripoffs), so it may be an exact match to one of them. The second run of the series in the '80s, '90s, and '00s definitely used Clarendon.

Helvetica and Clarendon are both extremely common/popular fonts, and have been so for ages (though they are nothing like each other, given that one is a sans serif and the other is a slab serif). For example, you'll find Helvetica on American stop signs, among countless other places. Clarendon was the first registered typeface in history, and was commonly used on "wanted posters" in the American West; was used on U.S. National Park Service signs for ages, and in countless other places.

The only exception I know of was the most recent episode of Columbo in 2003, which if I remember right, used some random, probably internet-age, font. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't Helvetica or Clarendon.

most recent columbo of 2003? are you referring to Columbo Likes the nightlife? just curious.

nothing more bothers me then when most tv shows feel the need to change something, usually for the worse, near the end the show's life.

Well done, Maxim! Thanks for clarifying this.