Batman: The Animated Series, season 1 episode title cards
From Paul Dini & Chip Kidd’s Batman Animated (1998):
These imaginatively rendered title cards were a high point of each Batman episode. While some (like “Harley’s Holiday” and “Time out of Joint”) were character portraits, most often the cards depicted an emotional impression of the given episode’s theme. According to Eric Radomski, who designed many of the cards, “Going with the overall retro-forties feel we were giving the show, we wanted to treat the episodes as mini-movies. The title cards allowed us to create great drama in a very subtle fashion. It was a process of trying to capture what the overall episode was, and not just show a scene or moment from it.”
Most of the title cards of Batman: The Animated Series’ first season (which first aired in 1992–1993) use fonts that were available from Letraset.
See also the post on the series’ logos.
Commercial Script and Compacta Italic
Cable (Kabel) Light
Peignot Medium
Windsor Bold Outline
Peignot Medium
Microgramma Medium Extended
Compacta Bold Outline
Plaza and Univers 49
Berling Bold
Berling Bold
LCD Outline
Cloister Bold
Helvetica Extra Light and Medium
Plaza Inline
City Medium
Murray Hill Bold
Plaza and Univers 49
Compacta Outline
Titus Medium
