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Typeface in the book

posted 14 years ago by zettaichan
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A note to any aspiring production designers out there: Zapf Chancery is not an appropriate font choice for the mysterious old book at the heart of a horror story.

There are countless free fonts online that would be more suitable, and The Scriptorium sells a pack of historically accurate medieval fonts for eighty bucks. Considering how many closeups are shown of the book in The Ceremony, $80 would have been a small investment for the amount of screentime it gets.

In the age of the Internet, creators have access to an unbelievable wealth of resources to make better art. There's no excuse in this day and age to use an ugly, wrong typeface that comes free with Windows for an important prop in a feature film, even a low-cost indie.

[–] dfutrelle 13 years ago

I noticed this too. It took me out of the movie for a moment.

Come on, moviemakers! I'm suspending my disbelief here. I'm pretending your prop old book is a real old book. Don't remind me "it's only a movie" with a dumb anachronism like an obviously not-ancient font.

Pretty good movie, though.

[–] everything_morbid 13 years ago

You know, it didn’t hit me until I read this thread that the book was supposed to be older than the late Victorian era. Just from the look of it and probably subconsciously from the typeface, I assumed that the book was only supposed to be from the late 19th century or so.

http://theforlornpath.blogspot.com/

[–] scion9 12 years ago

I don't think that it was supposed to be older than that, based on the artwork in the book which depicted people in victorian style clothing.