Font Research
We did a significant amount of research into genre conventions in the planning stages of our project, however something I thought we needed to address further was fonts. Before making the logo I did some additional research into font styles for our genre.
- I began by looking into posters and prints from the 1920's. A commonality that presented itself from this research, especially among movie and entertainment posters, was the style of using bold, block fonts for the main title and a looser, more curved font for other words including conjunctives such as 'And' or 'The'. This style can be seen on the B-Movie poster below.
- Searching on font websites, I found a few fonts that I thought would be appropriate:
- I settled on two fonts in the end, a blocky font for the main body of the title and a more curved, handwritten style font for the remainder of the text. These two fonts were:
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