Font used for credits

Not sure that there is anything used often enough to be considered a standard... Most films these days have a unique title sequence, and often that applies to the end credits too.

You can't really go wrong, IMO, no matter what font you choose, so long as it's legible and not distracting to the audience. Fonts that are easiest are probably Arial and Helvetica (there's a whole film about the latter).
 
Trajan is a very common credit font in Hollywood movies. Especially for main titles. I'd also like to hear what fonts other folks use around here too. Because so many fonts look terrible when transferred to DVD. And others look awesome. I like some of the thin fonts I see guys using in their credits on dvxuser. I'm not sure what font that is, however.
 
Also, the font most often used at the bottom of movie posters is Univers. It's that really thin tall font.
 
the most widely used font (considered the unofficial standard) for billing blocks is "Univers 39 Ultra Thin Condensed". I know a bunch of graphic designers who do theatrical posters for the studios and that's where i learned this. but keep in mind, there really is no standard. this is just like the default "go to" font for billing. doesn't mean you have to use it to be taken seriously

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Trajan Pro is not typically used for billing, it IS however OVERused for title treatments... as seen here...

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If you can't decide on a font just remember that Sans Serif fonts are best used for signs and Serif fonts for body copy. Thus for Movie credits you're better off with a Sans Serif style font. The original Trajan is a Serif font and started the whole serif thing when it was literally chiseled into marble to mark a Triumph for Emporer Trajan. The serifs were chiseled in to stop crack propagation which occurs when water collects at the corners of carved stone (ie. Marble) letters and then freezes, expands and causes crack(s) to form and then break of pieces of marble. Carving in a serif which originally was rounded prevents this. The Trajan Pro Zak is using is a modern Sans Serif font. (Sans - without)
 
Woody Allen uses Windsor-EF Elongate in the titles of nearly all his movies. In the mid-seventies, he was a regular at the same New Jersey diner where Ed Benguiat, a typographer, also frequented. One day he asked him what a good font was. Ed said, "Windsor."

Woody then said that he wasn't sure if there was an afterlife but that he was bringing packets of Sweet-and-Low just in case.
 
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