Tag: movie poster
True Gore Font
True Gore is an all-caps display font with two bloody options for each letter and numeral. A horrific pick for your dreadful designs, you bet. Just perfect for book and album covers, packaging, t-shirts, apparel, Halloween imagery, anything where you
Bearskin Font
NO! I don’t have a bearskin rug, nor a fur collar on my jacket. I believe fur should only be worn by its first owner. I have no idea why I called this font Bearskin: maybe I was influenced by
Silent Echo Font
Silent Echo – the name just popped up! I didn’t hear and echo, nor is it very silent here (with three kids running around). Silent Echo is a handmade all caps font. Quite neat, very legible and full of swashes!
Shadowfield Font
Shadowfield is a fantasy font which was inspired by the hand lettering on the Spiderwick movie posters (which itself was apparently based on Hand Skript One). Every glyph was drawn by hand, using a gel pen on 160 grams paper.
Liquid Amber Font
Liquidambar is actually a beautiful tree, native to America. I have one in my garden and I love its autumn colors! Liquid Amber is something else: it is a handmade all caps font that comes with oodles of diacritics, some
Bronwen Font
In Welsh mythology, Bronwen was the daughter of Llyr, the god of the sea. It is a popular girls name in Wales and it apparently means ‘white breast’ or ‘pure heart’. I really like this name and I think it
Hitchcut Font
Hichcut was inspired by Saul Bass’s designs for Vertigo and other Alfred Hitchcock movie posters – it’s a homage more than a slavish copy. For Hitchcut, I wanted to have that childlike, playful look and feel. It’s letter shapes are
Vanguard CF Font
VANGUARD CF is a powerful and elegant display typeface, constructed to maximize horizontal space. Built from sketches originally drawn in 2012, Vanguard’s eight weights span an elegant Thin to an arresting Heavy, with accompanying obliques. As with its sibling Integral
Cortese Font
As usual, I stumbled upon a great 1971 Italian movie poster when looking for something else. The poster for “La Morte Cammina Con I Tacchi Alti” (directed by Luciano Ercoli), was made by an unknown artist and comes with a
Helsing Font
Helsing is a serif style font inspired by Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula as well as Edward Gorey’s rendition of the story. Helsing is characterized by his slighting skewed baseline, subtle texture, thick and thin contrasts, and decorative legs. Made as
Raker Font
Raker was born out of a love for retro science fiction aesthetics as evidenced in films like The Clone Returns Home, Moon,and Alien, while simultaneously being a text typeface with a humanist influence and solid spacing. The family includes 4
Kommisar Font
Kommisar is a typeface loosely based on the inscriptions on the Trajan capital in Rome and informed by the structural sensibilities of American signpainter and lettering artist Father Edward Catich. Perfect for use in advertising, movie posters, movie titles, identity