Friday 16 January 2015

Film poster fonts

To tightly connect my film poster with the film itself, I know I wanted to use an analog-looking text. I started off by visiting dafont.com which has a large variety of brilliant font types. I looked under the 'analog' section and found a couple I was quite fond of - but, before I did this I browsed various fonts and tried them in replacement of the analog fonts but found the analog ones were more suited to the theme.
The fonts that were in the running-up to the one I finally decided to go for can be seen below:
I chose not to go with 'XTREEM FAT' simply based on the fact that the lower case font was far too hard to read when the text was made smaller and I didn't like the way it sat in the position of the poster no matter how many times I moved it around.
'KG Ways To Say Goodbye' was initially my favourite but I found it quite bland on the poster and it really didn't have the effect I thought it would. I was looking for a more 'full bodied' text and its settings wouldn't allow me to make the font any bolder.
04b_03 seemed to have the potential of my chosen analog font as its heavily pixelated and would go well with the pixel effect I used on my image but it was far too bold and dominated the page heavily which isn't what I wanted or felt fit the mood of my poster.
FINALLY, I found what I was looking for!

'Pixelpoiiz' was by far the best analog font I found after scrolling mercilessly though hundreds of other analog fonts. The font puts love hearts in replacement of semi colons and on certain letters which really gives it a girly edge. As the song I'm making the poster for is made for predominantly female listeners I thought this would draw in girls and make them want to watch the video. I also asked the main character and this is the one she prefered and said it looked 'kawaaii' which is one of the adjectives she would describe her music as. This made it easier to use the font and it complemented the main image.

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