Comments on: When fonts take over

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:09:12 +0000

The poster for 300 had a killer font, set on the black cliff as the soldiers go tumbling over it like lemmings. Cool.

By: Stick

Stick — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:21:20 +0000

Okay, I know this is off subject a little… but what about the TV series “V” from the 80’s. The creeepy spray painted, red “V” was a cool icon.

By: jab

jab — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:49:30 +0000

… and then there are the Polish movie posters which are completely different.

They are really artistic and innovative. Usually the American movie posters get their Polish remakes, too.

Polish posters try more to describe the style and atmosphere of the movie rather than just to inform you that this is a movie with actors who have faces.

Google for “polish posters” for more.

By: jab

jab — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:39:04 +0000

And then there are Polish movie posters. They are completely different:
http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=USA

By: Tdave

Tdave — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:14:13 +0000

I wish I could see a chart of fonts. An example of the fonts with their name. I don’t know one font from another. It could just be the name of the font written its own font.

By: james

james — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:27:42 +0000

good question Lauren. a good example of that font is in the illusionist poster above. I absolutely hate that font because its completely illegible unless its gigantic.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:03:28 +0000

Does the film “Helvetica” count? That was a good poster.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:38:34 +0000

speaking of fonts and movie posters, why do the majority of the designs use
that extreme condensed thin font (don’t know it’s name)to list the credits? It’s always the same and VERY hard to read, expecially when they also use it in TV spot…

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:42:55 +0000

This isnt really related to the topic, but…

27 Dresses was partially shot in Rhodes Island (I don’t know how much). There was a big buzz around the New England area. Many of my freinds went down to participate as extra’s playing ‘goths’. I cant wait for the movie to see how many of them made it in!

The poster would be better in Bauhaus though (The only goth/font related joke that can be made).

By: Meagan

Meagan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:52:48 +0000

Check out the Redacted poster at impawards.com. Others I found there were Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, Bee Movie (the one with the big B), Skid Marks, and Death Sentence. There are more, but I’ll stop here.