Research Post: Font

 When I was looking at fonts on old movie posters from German expressionism period I noticed that they use specific kind. It depends from the design but general idea is the same. As most of them looks like hand written (probably are) the font is also at this style. They use mostly bold serif types but in various way. 

Here are posters that I looked at:

'Metropolis' by Fritz Lang, 1927

'Die Ratte' by Joe May, 1918

'M' by Fritz Lang, 1931

As you can see all fonts looks like written by hand. They do not use serifs and letters are slightly distrorted. The line is not perfectly straight. Some of the letters are slightly higher or lower. This kind of typeface reminds me of woodcut. The lines are rough and very basic. 

For my posters I invent the title 'Bajor'. It is my great-grandma's surname. For type style for my poster I was inspired by 'Metropolis' by Fritz Lang. You can read more about this poster in my previous post. 

Here you can watch I created:

I created this title in ProCreate app. Firstly I played with contour and then I used filling tool to fill with the colour. So it is basically hand written. I wanted to have spike ending of the letter (the bottom). I liked this outcome and I used it on posters. 

References:

Letterboxd.com. 2021. Die Ratte (1918). [online] Available at: <https://letterboxd.com/film/die-ratte-1918/> [Accessed 26 July 2021].

Imdb.com. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/> [Accessed 26 July 2021].

StudioBinder. 2021. How to Make a Movie Poster [Free Poster Template]. [online] Available at: <https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/movie-poster-credits-template/> [Accessed 21 July 2021].