Wednesday Inspiration: Film Posters

Remember those film posters where the main character claims more than 90% of the space? We’ve just collected 15 such posters to see how those dilemmas regarding the typography have been solved. Do you end up looking into their eyes? Are you charmed by the smiles, the colors and… the cracks? Do you read between the lines? Is the type friend or foe? Whatever your conclusion, you have to admit this is a pretty interesting use of headline fonts. Now let’s see those eyes and those types:

Silver Linings

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Thor

Mirror Mirror

Dorian Gray

Black Swan

Lincoln

Crazy Heart

The New Frontier

My Week with Marilyn

Zero Dark Thirty

Spider Man

The Rum Diary

The Hobbit

True Grit