But even those didn’t identify all of the fonts used. So I turned to What The Font, a font recognition system that allows you to upload an image containing samples of typefaces and attempts to put a name the mystery font. It works pretty well, and I was able to identify almost all of the fonts used in the films. There are a few, however, that I just couldn’t seem to track down or that still seemed just a little bit off from the suggestions I found on the MyFonts forum. Those specimins I’ve included at the end, and if you can offer an ID for any of them, feel free to post in the comments and I’ll update the post and give you some mad credit.
So, without further ado, the fonts of “Kill Bill,” in no particular order:
Volta, probably
Georgia, almost positive
Avant Garde (If you think this and Chapter One look the same, take a closer look at the lower-case “e.” Trust me.)
That WhatTheFont site is stupidly cool. I’ve used Identifont (http://www.identifont.com/) before to identify unknown typefaces, but it only works if you have more characters to work with. If you can get more screen shots that use those same typefaces, you *might* be able to identify it with Identifont. That will certainly be tricky with some of the screen grabs that only have a few characters (though I know I’ve seen the characters in that “Vol. 2″ screenshot before — I’ll have to look in my collection here).
“Our feature presentation” is about as simple as they come: Helvetica bold.
I’m fairly sure that “a film by Quentin Tarantino” is Gadget, although they seem to have modified the “Q” slightly.
That’s about all I have time for tonight.
That Vol. 2 looks a lot like Franklin Gothic Heavy with a modified 2 (as I can’t find that two in any typeface I have on my desktop). That’s about as close as I got, as the rest of my sans typefaces I have here have a wider inner circle in the “o”, have a round period, or have a perfectly symetrical (sp?) “V”, and the Franklin “V” is weighted a bit on the left more. Obviously the font size is different per character, but it looks pretty dang close to me.
The script typeface looks like Coronet, based on playing with Identifont’s new feature where you can tell it what characters you have to work with.
I couldn’t figure out the serif typeface for the life of me, however.
This has been fun :-)
i’m jealous of your font knowledge.
The font in “Our feature presentation” closely resembles Helvetica, but look at the “R” and “S” — they don’t match a bit.