The Font is Set!

Due to the fact that spring break is approaching, Jonathan and I need to have everything ready before we shoot towards the end of that week. One of the last decisions we had to make was the font that we are going to use for the credits and the title of for the tilt that we are using. In my previous post on 3/11/19, I discussed the intention behind why we were considering each font and what each of them represented to me.

To refresh your memory the fonts that we were choosing from were Chiller, Gloucester MT, Eras Demi ITC, Maiandra GD, Mistral, Niagara Engraved, and Viner Hand ITC. All of the fonts are displayed below in the respective order.

We decided to go font by font and discuss the possible issues with each font and how well they worked with our representation of the characters and the message of the opening. The first font, Chiller, for starters felt as if it could be too illegible and our goal is also to represent a slightly crooked and deranged mental state for our character and this was too crooked and off-putting to us.

For the second through fourth fonts, Gloucester MT, Eras Demi ITC and Maiandra GD, as I just mentioned we are going for this slightly crooked aspect in our character and title but these fonts all use straight letters and don't provide any sort of cracked elements in them. The spacing feels too perfect and in our eyes just couldn't work.

The fifth font, Mistral, stood out the most as it was clear to see and what we liked the most was the letters not being perfect strokes in the sense that the tip of the 'A' was mvoing a little further and this followed with the other letters.

For the sixth and seventh font, Niagara Engraved and Viner Hand ITC, we ran into the same issues again where Niagara was too straight and perfect with its spacing and Viner was too illegible along with the aspect that the letters were too crooked.

After all of our deliberation we have decided on Mistral as it made the most sense considering all of our problems with the other fonts.