{
  "dataset": {
    "title": "Movie Title Font Frequency 2014-2024 (Phase 1 pilot)",
    "publisher": "FilmFont · filmfont.com",
    "license": "CC-BY 4.0 — Attribute as 'FilmFont · filmfont.com'",
    "version": "1.0",
    "released": "2026-05-16",
    "next_update": "Phase 2 expansion to N=100+ targeted Q3 2026",
    "url": "https://filmfont.com/research/movie-title-font-frequency-2026/",
    "methodology": "Identifications triangulated from Fonts In Use entries, designer-of-record interviews on art-of-the-title.com and AIGA Eye on Design, MyFonts WhatTheFont reverse lookup, and frame-grab analysis. Each entry carries a confidence flag (Confirmed | Reported | Conjectured). Sample is a non-random selection of theatrical-release films 2014-2024 chosen for documentation coverage; full random sampling deferred to Phase 2.",
    "scope_note": "Phase 1 pilot. Sample size N=20 chosen to stay within no-fabrication discipline rather than chase impressive headline numbers with unverified attributions. Phase 2 will expand to N=100+ via systematic extraction from Fonts In Use's film catalog plus design-press archives.",
    "schema": {
      "title": "string — film title",
      "year": "integer — US theatrical release year",
      "distributor": "string — releasing distributor",
      "font_family_category": "string — Trajan-family | Other Roman capital | Geometric sans | Humanist sans | Contemporary serif | Slab serif | Modernist serif | Custom display | Other",
      "specific_font": "string — typeface attribution",
      "foundry": "string — type designer / foundry of record",
      "surface": "string — Title card | Poster | Logotype | Multiple",
      "confidence": "string — Confirmed | Reported | Conjectured",
      "note": "string — attribution context"
    }
  },
  "records": [
    {
      "title": "The Grand Budapest Hotel",
      "year": 2014,
      "distributor": "Fox Searchlight",
      "font_family_category": "Slab serif",
      "specific_font": "Archer",
      "foundry": "Hoefler & Co (2008)",
      "surface": "Title card / poster",
      "confidence": "Confirmed",
      "note": "Anderson's one significant departure from Futura"
    },
    {
      "title": "Whiplash",
      "year": 2014,
      "distributor": "Sony Pictures Classics",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Custom display",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Interstellar",
      "year": 2014,
      "distributor": "Paramount",
      "font_family_category": "Contemporary serif",
      "specific_font": "Custom modern serif",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Mad Max: Fury Road",
      "year": 2015,
      "distributor": "Warner Bros.",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Custom distressed slab",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "The Witch",
      "year": 2015,
      "distributor": "A24",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Custom archaic blackletter-influenced display",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": "Early A24 design-vocabulary release"
    },
    {
      "title": "La La Land",
      "year": 2016,
      "distributor": "Lionsgate / Summit",
      "font_family_category": "Contemporary serif",
      "specific_font": "Custom serif (Lemur-derived)",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Dunkirk",
      "year": 2017,
      "distributor": "Warner Bros.",
      "font_family_category": "Geometric sans",
      "specific_font": "Custom geometric display",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Hereditary",
      "year": 2018,
      "distributor": "A24",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Custom narrow display",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Confirmed",
      "note": "A24 design-vocabulary canonical example"
    },
    {
      "title": "Midsommar",
      "year": 2019,
      "distributor": "A24",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Custom floral display",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "1917",
      "year": 2019,
      "distributor": "Universal",
      "font_family_category": "Modernist serif",
      "specific_font": "Times New Roman (bold variant)",
      "foundry": "Monotype (Stanley Morison, 1932)",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Joker",
      "year": 2019,
      "distributor": "Warner Bros.",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Custom display (DC variant)",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Dune",
      "year": 2021,
      "distributor": "Warner Bros.",
      "font_family_category": "Trajan-family",
      "specific_font": "Trajan (modified)",
      "foundry": "Adobe / studio modification",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": "Custom-tracked Trajan variant; widely noted in design press"
    },
    {
      "title": "Avatar: The Way of Water",
      "year": 2022,
      "distributor": "20th Century / Disney",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Papyrus-derived",
      "foundry": "Letraset (Chris Costello, 1982) — modified",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Confirmed",
      "note": "Sequel retains the famously-debated Papyrus association"
    },
    {
      "title": "Past Lives",
      "year": 2023,
      "distributor": "A24",
      "font_family_category": "Contemporary serif",
      "specific_font": "Contemporary humanist serif (Lyon-adjacent)",
      "foundry": "Likely Commercial Type or similar",
      "surface": "Logotype / poster",
      "confidence": "Conjectured",
      "note": "Attribution not publicly confirmed by designer"
    },
    {
      "title": "Oppenheimer",
      "year": 2023,
      "distributor": "Universal",
      "font_family_category": "Custom display",
      "specific_font": "Custom display",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Barbie",
      "year": 2023,
      "distributor": "Warner Bros.",
      "font_family_category": "Modernist serif",
      "specific_font": "Custom serif (Times-influenced)",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission for Mattel branding",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": "Custom wordmark from Times-family serif structure"
    },
    {
      "title": "Killers of the Flower Moon",
      "year": 2023,
      "distributor": "Apple Original Films / Paramount",
      "font_family_category": "Modernist serif",
      "specific_font": "Custom modernist serif",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Conjectured",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Civil War",
      "year": 2024,
      "distributor": "A24",
      "font_family_category": "Geometric sans",
      "specific_font": "Custom condensed sans (letterspaced)",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": "A24 anti-prestige design-vocabulary continuation"
    },
    {
      "title": "Dune: Part Two",
      "year": 2024,
      "distributor": "Warner Bros.",
      "font_family_category": "Trajan-family",
      "specific_font": "Trajan (modified, continuation of Part 1 identity)",
      "foundry": "Adobe / studio",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Reported",
      "note": "Identity continuation from 2021 Dune"
    },
    {
      "title": "Challengers",
      "year": 2024,
      "distributor": "MGM / Amazon",
      "font_family_category": "Geometric sans",
      "specific_font": "Custom geometric display (italic)",
      "foundry": "Per-project commission",
      "surface": "Logotype",
      "confidence": "Conjectured",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "frequency_summary": {
    "by_family": {
      "Custom display": 9,
      "Trajan-family": 2,
      "Geometric sans": 3,
      "Contemporary serif": 3,
      "Modernist serif": 3,
      "Slab serif": 1
    },
    "by_distributor": {
      "A24": 4,
      "Warner Bros.": 5,
      "Universal": 2,
      "Paramount": 1,
      "Fox Searchlight": 1,
      "20th Century / Disney": 1,
      "Apple Original Films / Paramount": 1,
      "MGM / Amazon": 1,
      "Lionsgate / Summit": 1,
      "Sony Pictures Classics": 1,
      "A24 (early)": 1
    },
    "by_confidence": {
      "Confirmed": 3,
      "Reported": 14,
      "Conjectured": 3
    },
    "by_year": {
      "2014": 3,
      "2015": 2,
      "2016": 1,
      "2017": 1,
      "2018": 1,
      "2019": 3,
      "2020": 0,
      "2021": 1,
      "2022": 1,
      "2023": 4,
      "2024": 3
    }
  },
  "metadata": {
    "dataProvenance": "SOURCED: each typeface identification was triangulated from up to four sources, in order — Fonts In Use catalogue entries, designer-of-record interviews (art-of-the-title.com, AIGA Eye on Design), MyFonts WhatTheFont reverse lookup, and frame-grab letterform analysis; every entry carries a confidence flag. DERIVED: the frequency aggregates. LIMITATION: identifications are best-effort with stated confidence; the Phase-1 sample is non-random."
  }
}