Movie Poster Typography
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Movie poster typography. The notorious bettie page. Expressive photography bright colors and retro typography are quick ways to channel the comedy genre in your movie poster designs. In this article we analyse the five of the most common typefaces used in 50 examples of stunning.
Artwork with typographic elements combines the best of both worlds namely eye catching imagery and ultimate readability. Emma 2020 focus features. This font is based on the one used for spiderman movies.
If you do not want to use typography that is already repeated to satiety you can always use movie poster fonts as guides for your projects. Textures are also very common here like metal stone fire grunge etc depending on the film. Hacksaw ridge uses a clean and discreet sans serif fette engschrift d which looks fantastic against dramatic action photography.
Mar 18 2015 reference for my advanced applications for print publishing course at emerson. Riffing on the idea of inspirational film posters here s a round up of movie posters that focus on typography. See more ideas about typographic movie posters typography poster.
Eurostile and bank gothic are popular choices. Typographic movie posters is a personal project where i challenged myself to re design existing movie posters with the purpose of improving myself on different aspects of design i am unfamiliar with. War movie posters often suit ultra modern typefaces which helps to make the story feel relevant and immediate to modern day audiences.
The typographic movie poster. Action movie posters tend to feature sans serif squarish typefaces with right angles. Here we will feature posters that have excellent use of typography and text effects.
Movie posters can be an excellent source of design inspiration. Movie fonts that deserve a test homoarakhn font an arachnid movie font. These posters are from old and new films alike and all use typography in creative ways.
Limiting myself to an hour or two for each poster i ex 8230. For more typographic inspiration see typeinspire. Typography is becoming more and more of the main visual element in all successful movie poster designs.
Booksmart 2019 united artists releasing. There s a certain strength in well done lettering on a poster that attracts and keeps an audience s attention potentially setting a mood or tone for a lasting impression.
