Bill Doherty Jr. Blog

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Movie Poster size and Font

This post is mostly as a reference to myself, but, I figured it will help out others in case you were searching. Every time I am designing a poster for a film I have written down the dimensions for it somewhere and the font used to do the credits with and I lose the info. All the time!!! So here it is:

The two most common used movie poster sizes are:

  • 27 x 40 (Seems to be more practical for indie films)
  • 40 x 60 (Full size movie theater size)
And the font used for the credits is:

Here is the key chart for the Steeltongs font. The zip file also has a printable description of how to work the keys for it.