Type Tasting presents

Type Tasting presents

Total Film. How type cast are your favourite movie posters? (Archive)

What does a poster’s typography tell us? More than you’d think. I chatted to Jordon Farley of Total Film magazine about cracking the code behind some of cinema’s most famous fonts.

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Sarah Hyndman
Feb 24, 2023
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By Sarah Hyndman, June 2017.

“When you’re creating a poster, you’re using lots of visual codes. Use a typeface that jars with what’s being communicated and it can make the difference, in the same way that a badly cast actor might reduce credibility. We read type quite subliminally, because we read it automatically, these references take a shortcut to our…

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