{
  "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
    }
  }
}