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Birdman poster and opening credits

News|Fonts in Use|Andreas Kofler 2016-01-29 11:48:34

TheBell GothicBlack in all caps, with some characters modified. The spur on 'G' is removed. 'I' lost its serifs and gained a dot. 'J' received a dot, too. The leg of 'R' is curved.

An article in The New Yorker unveils the whys and wherefores of the sequenced lettering:

The biggest surprise of Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film, "Birdman," is its opening credits: the typography (as seen in the trailer) is borrowed from that of Jean-Luc Godard's color films of the mid-sixties, and Iñárritu's credits are animated—with letters filling in onscreen in alphabetical order—exactly as Godard's were in "Pierrot le Fou" (1965).