Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things movie poster
Contributed by Bryson Stohr
on Oct 31st, 2024. Artwork published in
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Source: m.imdb.com License: All Rights Reserved.
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things is a 1972 B movie directed by Bob Clark, here credited as Benjamin Clark.
The interlocking face used for the title of the movie is a bloodied Filmotype Mason. Secondary typefaces include the lighter Filmotype Omaha, what looks like Trade Gothic (or, perhaps, News Gothic), and a casual italic face.
3 Comments on “Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things movie poster”
Bryson points out that there’s a digital font based on this use. Named Children shouldn’t play with dead things, it was made by Thomas W. Otto of Norfok in 2001. To my knowledge, this is the only digitization of Mason.
I think I found the italic casual face. It seems to have been offered by Cello-Tak, who named it (Hand Lettering) 3131/3137, as seen here.
I also found another specimen of the same design that seemingly shows alternates here. The book to which the link heads calls it “No. 133-A”, which appears to be an alias, and also mentions Cello-Tak as its creator.
Top-notch sleuthing, Bryson! Congrats on finding it.