A great poster font for you guys!

[Erez Henya]

Hey guys,

I saw many of you were having some poster font issues in the last entries, and I think the following little font is what you are looking for.

Through the years, I was using quite a lot of different poster fonts myself, and so far I have found this font the best of all. Not only it is identical to genuine font used by all major studios, it also offers preset job titles (more than you would probably want to use in one poster!), and it also includes genuine logos and video/audio markings that you would likely want to use on the back of DVD releases.

The font is available for instant downloading (free of charge) in DaFont (click the following image for link) and seems not to have any restrictions or limitations on it at all.

Hopefully that's gonna help you guys out with the posters!

And remember, if you insist designing your posters small (which I would not recommend as this prevents you from printing it later), do not to create your text objects small in the first place (anything that is below 72pt) when designing. If you need your text to be small (as you'd probably want the credit section to be), create it large (I personally like to use 200pt) and then resize it to whatever size you need. This way you don't lose any detail. But again, designing your posters insanely large (I guess that's something like 27" x 40" on 300 DPI) in the first place would be even better.

Anytime,

Erez

http://www.dafont.com/img/charmap/s/t/steeltongs0.png (http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=steeltongs&page=1&nb_ppp_old=10&text=cEREZ+HENYA&nb_ppp=10&psize=l&classt=alpha)

Check out the next page for more tips.

[AmyO]

Nice find. I'll have to snag that one.

[Jeff Anderson]

Very cool!! Thanks for sharing - really love all the little titles done like that.

[Zak Forsman]

if anyone cares the name of the actual font that is most often used is called "Univers 39 Thin Ultra Condensed". there is no actual standard, but this is the "go to" font that professional poster key art designers use to lay out the billing blocks. i've got some friends who do this for a living. this font isn't free, however. that being said, the above knock-off is a great time saver.

http://cdn.myfonts.com/113/fs/u/2a/692cdbea24e9ed2c95684ae7e67fdc.png

[stinkpot]

Erez, you are gentleman and a scholar. I frequent deFont an haven not seen this one. Thanks for sharing this! Did you create this one?

And Zak... this is info that I have always wanted to seek out but put on the back burner for this reason or that. Thanks man.

:beer:

[Rodney V. Smith]

sweet. snagged and installed... now to redo my posters...

[ConspiracyPenguin]

Very nice find. A time-saver indeed. I just tested it out on a poster I am working on and it looks good. :)

[ZazaCast]

Thanks! Been using this for awhile...it was in a post a few months ago. Great font & a real time saver.

[RyanT]

Sweet! Thanks for this.

[J.R. Hudson]

Awesome find; got it DL'd.

[justin ewart]

hey wikkid! thanks for the resource!

[Chris Messineo]

Love it. Thanks a lot.

[rfox]

Thanks Erez!

[p.a.h.]

Very cool, thanks

[alignment1]

That's awesome, thanks guys!!

Z

[WayneB]

Thanks guys for the resources and info.

Wayne

[Rodney V. Smith]

The credit block is also useful to know, like what to put in there and when. So I did a little bit of research on it. Here's a basic breakdown.


[PROD CO] presents in association with [PROD CO] a [DIR/PROD] production [TITLE] starring [NAME] [NAME]
[NAME] [NAME] [NAME] [NAME] and [NAME] music by[NAME] visual effects supervisor [NAME] editor [NAME]
production designer [NAME] director of photography [NAME] executive producers [NAME] produced by [NAME]
story (based on etc) by [NAME] screenplay by [NAME] directed by [NAME]
[WEBSITE]


hope this helps

[WayneB]

This has become a most profitable informational morning, Thanks to all.

Wayne

[Erez Henya]

I am glad to see my thread is helpful, my friends.

And thanks, Rodney! the above breakdown is a great pattern to start with!

Then we can modify it based on what we feel is important to mention, and/or based on our contracts with the cast and crew we work with. As with almost everything else in life, no rules apply.



Here are four more resources for learning and inspiration:


Superman Returns (http://media.movieweb.com/galleries/482/posters/poster1.jpg) (2000x1767)

The Dark Knight (http://www.hans-zimmer.ch/darkknight_poster_gross.jpg) (4050x6000)

Munich (http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/munich/poster2.jpg) (972x1440)

Casino Royale (http://patrickdonohueonline.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/casino-royale1.jpg) (1000x1489)

and lastly... 40 Days and 40 Nights (http://posters.motechnet.com/covers/tt0243736_largeCover.jpg) :grin: (509x755)

[Norm Sanders]

Wow, EXCELLENT find, and thanks for sharing!!!

[orchidsofwrath]

Hey thanks this is awsome!

Did anyone catch that they have "a font by" as one of the credit preset things. haha. I assume they'd like us to put "a font by WHOAMI DESIGNS" in our credits lol.

[Derkoi]

Thanks! Great font!

[GregWilliams2175]

Great

[Erez Henya]

I would like to dedicate this BUMP to our community!

[Kyle Stebbins]

Cool stuff. - Design your poster in InDesign and it won't matter whether you are editing your text in 75 pt or 5000 pt. You can zoom in a lossless environment.

Never make your final posters in Photoshop.

Great font! I just downloaded it!

[Erez Henya]

Cool stuff. - Design your poster in InDesign and it won't matter whether you are editing your text in 75 pt or 5000 pt. You can zoom in a lossless environment.

Never make your final posters in Photoshop.

Hey Kyle, good to see you here!

How does it differ from Photoshop's vector-text support?


Great font! I just downloaded it!

As always - glad I could help!

[Sprocketboy]

Oh, man! I thought I was the only one who found this 'knock-off' of movie poster fonts in this forum.

Lo and behold, Erez found it first. Its a nice font set.

One big problem is that you have to refer to the 'read me' file to know what keystroke combination you need to get the title set you want. Then again, its better than laying everything out from scratch.

[ZazaCast]

Actually... Our good friend Ted Arabian posted this back in March of 2008 (3/28/2008):
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=1234461&postcount=7

...but it was nice of you to repost!

[Matt Harris]

greatest font ever! nice find.

[maestro1d]

Wow, that rocks Ezra. Very cool download. I'll try and return the favor when possible...