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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Font Analysis

This font is the first one I spotted that looked like it was for a horror. This was due to the liquid (which I conventionally saw as blood) dripping from each letters like the letters weren't full intact. This idea if something being very brittle and wearing away gives the sense of destruction and so anarchy and evil which all relate to horror. The title is crudely drawn and the use of a blood like substance instantly says horror film and death.


This font reminded me of the punk movement of 1977 but it could be relevant to horror as the lettering looks old and worn away and a lot of horror is based on some forgotten history or something and the way the font almost seems like that once it was happy would make the audience feel uncomfortable since we as people put our trust in things that make us happy but really the horror genre can abuse this and make it dishonest; this idea that you're never safe.

This last font reminds me of scratching or carving into a surface. This angry imagery would make the audience think of someone or something dangerous and maybe even a tool used to carve it in such a way, like a knife. All of these fonts are in block capitals to make them stand out and none of them are really neat, they all have jagged edges almost like whoever wrote them didn't care or had to do it quickly.This gives us the image of someone being frantic and panicky which would make the audience do the same.

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