Typography Used In Movie Posters

Her Alibi 1989 movie poster 1989.

Typography used in movie posters. Many fonts go for soft. This article focuses on the use of typography to create impact and drama when designing posters. The importance of typography can not be understated especially with movie posters.

Contributed by D Jones. This is the era with a distinct movement toward making the typography part of the artwork. When the word typography comes to mind most of us think about choosing a font.

If it needs a san-serif its Helvetica. We constantly notice exceptional humorous and romantic typefaces on movie posters or announcements and wonder which fonts were used in them. If its serif its most likely Trajan.

Quite often the film companies themselves produce these letterforms and use them solely for their own distribution purposes. Often fonts play with the shapes of letters or have interesting patterns like snowdrops inkdrop effects or thin horizontal stripes inside the letters. Serious serifs are commonly used on drama posters often with generous tracking letter spacing to promote a momentous weighty tone.

Jaws The typography and design on this poster are as. This handwritten font is perfect not only as a movie poster but also for cards where we want to highlight with handwriting. Its interesting then that one approach to attracting film-goers has stood the test of time.

It seems to me that there are basically only two fonts used in movie posters. Riffing on the idea of inspirational film posters heres a round up of movie posters that focus on typography. All times are CEST.