[Frameworks] FONT options for Titles
Dear Frameworks, We have recently made a short 16mm film / Super 8 too. We are planning to shoot the titles with an animation stand this week. We have found the font options are very digital looking and wonder if there is a standard font that used to be used for titles. Sorry for the banality of this question! Warmest, Shumona [image: image] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_Church Brotherhood Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_Church The Brotherhood Church is a Christian anarchist and pacifist community.[1] An intentional community with Quaker origins has been located at Stapleton, near Pontef... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_Church Preview by Yahoo ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] FONT options for Titles
Thanks this is super helpful! — Sent from Mailbox On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Stephen Broomer stephen_broo...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Shumona, I can’t speak to whether there used to be a standard font, however, if you see a font that you like in a film, you can use a font identifier website like this one: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ Just take a screen cap and upload it and it will give you a range of fonts that are the same or similar. It’s my experience from having rephotographed a number of films from digital intermediates that the harsh digital look of titles softens through photography to 16mm or Super 8. For example, the title at the head of this, which was generated in Photoshop and then rephotographed to 16mm (this is a scan from 16mm). I believe this was in the Optima family: https://vimeo.com/60809200 https://vimeo.com/60809200 Another possible option would be to use traditional graphic design tools and forego generating titles with a computer altogether. For example, you could choose a font you like and search for a letraset sheet of it, etch out the titles onto card stock and shoot them on the animation stand. I’ve done that a few times and I think it’s pretty effective. Hope this helps! Stephen On Apr 14, 2015, at 2:27 AM, Shumona Goel shumonag...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Frameworks, We have recently made a short 16mm film / Super 8 too. We are planning to shoot the titles with an animation stand this week. We have found the font options are very digital looking and wonder if there is a standard font that used to be used for titles. Sorry for the banality of this question! Warmest, Shumona ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] FONT options for Titles
Hi Shumona, I can’t speak to whether there used to be a standard font, however, if you see a font that you like in a film, you can use a font identifier website like this one: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ Just take a screen cap and upload it and it will give you a range of fonts that are the same or similar. It’s my experience from having rephotographed a number of films from digital intermediates that the harsh digital look of titles softens through photography to 16mm or Super 8. For example, the title at the head of this, which was generated in Photoshop and then rephotographed to 16mm (this is a scan from 16mm). I believe this was in the Optima family: https://vimeo.com/60809200 https://vimeo.com/60809200 Another possible option would be to use traditional graphic design tools and forego generating titles with a computer altogether. For example, you could choose a font you like and search for a letraset sheet of it, etch out the titles onto card stock and shoot them on the animation stand. I’ve done that a few times and I think it’s pretty effective. Hope this helps! Stephen On Apr 14, 2015, at 2:27 AM, Shumona Goel shumonag...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Frameworks, We have recently made a short 16mm film / Super 8 too. We are planning to shoot the titles with an animation stand this week. We have found the font options are very digital looking and wonder if there is a standard font that used to be used for titles. Sorry for the banality of this question! Warmest, Shumona ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
