Typophile - The Darjeeling Limited movie logo and poster type - Comments

Completely by accident (via

auricfuzz — Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:11:55 -0700

Completely by accident (via Type for You), I came across the designer of the movie’s custom font, Boris Dworschak. His website says that it comes in three weights, but doesn’t provide much other info.

I thought Wes Anderson was a

adnix — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:52:48 -0700

I thought Wes Anderson was a Futura freak? The Life Aquatic had FUtura and I can’t remember the names of his other films, but I thought all had appearances of Futura?

Of course, that provides no help for solving this puzzle.

The credits on the poster

Kellie Strøm — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:11:09 -0700

The credits on the poster look like the same typeface, but without the partial inline.

The W is quite distinctive, and very unlike the fonts named so far.

Good point. I was about to

Ehague — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:25:43 -0700

Good point. I was about to say it’d be like him making a film that didn’t have either Jason Schwartzman or a Wilson brother in it...and then I looked at the cast list.

I can’t see Wes Anderson

Lex Kominek — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:19:56 -0700

I can’t see Wes Anderson using a font designed after 1960 in one of his films. I don’t know what it is, but it’s probably old.

- Lex

See Ray Larabie’s Blue

bowfinpw — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:10:52 -0700

See Ray Larabie’s Blue Highway. It has the right J. It may have been widened a bit, but I think the underlying letters may have come from here, using some merge features to make the partially outlined font look.

- Mike Yanega

Looks like a modified

Ehague — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:07:44 -0700

Looks like a modified version of Interstate . If it is, besides all the handtooling, the J is notably different.

The Darjeeling Limited movie logo and poster type

kiarostami — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:54:53 -0700

Here’s the title treatment for Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Darjeeling Limited.” Seems like a strange choice to me. Anyone recognize the font?