movie posters Archives – Wingsart Studio | Cinematic Fonts by Christopher King

Terror Express

The upcoming Blu-ray of Silvia Dionisio's Terror Express (1980) appropriately sports my font Cinema Macabre on its cover art, with a straightforward title treatment that does at least take full advantage of the alternative characters built into this font. You'll notice that all four of the lowercase 'r' characters have a slightly different appearance, which…

Fonts In Use

Fear Street: Prom Queen

Most font designers can probably relate that when you see one of your designs in the wild it stops you in your tracks and screams 'I did that!" I knew from the second I spotted the poster for the Netflix show, Fear Street: Prom Queen, that it was one of mine, but I've done so…

Sketchbook

Army of Darkness

Comic book inspired poster art for Sam Raimi's third Evil Dead movie, Army of Darkness. Starting as a self-initiated project as a fan of the movie, this poster illustration caught the attention of the Ash vs Evil writing team and (I'm reliably informed) hangs on their office wall. The version shown here is a recent…

Sketchbook

Key Largo

One of my favourites of the film noir genre gets the illustrated film poster treatment. Besides from being a true classic of the 1940s film noir genre, Key Largo is also one of those great single setting films; trapping a stellar cast of volatile characters within the heart of a tropical storm, with tensions ready…