Making posters: Inspiration & Typography

A lot of the time, choosing the right font for a poster can make or break the theme and over-all look of it. Typography is an important element in making graphics! 

Sans, Sans Serif, Gothic, Handwritten, Calligraphy... etc.

Don't stick with Arial, Helvetica, Times when you can explore more font families and types! 

Also, there's no harm in finding inspiration from Drama and Movie posters! Imagine the idols/ulzzangs are really starring in the story and that will really help in creating a poster. Inspiration is different from plagiarism, okay? Don't copy the style. Being inspired is not using the entire design. Use elements you think will work and make a new design according to what you think.

Inspiration from

 

잘자요 형 Goodnight Hyung = UhBee Rice

Kakaotalk Text = Apple SD Gothic Neo (built-in font available in Apple devices)

Inspiration from

    

colorful = Tomatoes

Park Jimin / Min Yoongi / suchentao = Beauty

the blonde in blue = DreamOnly

 

Inspiration from

 

is it okay to say = Avenir Next Condensed (built-in font for Apple devices)

i love you = shorelines

awards + credits = SF Movie Poster

"Hyung... I have something to tell you" = Jenna Sue

So these are a few of my most commonly used fonts for graphics. Also, how movie and drama posters can guide the design and inspire an artist! Don't be afraid to use them ;D

For free fonts I recommend checking out DaFont.com because you can search for fonts in different categories, plus they're mostly free for personal / non-commercial use.

If you are able to type in Hangul (Korean alphabet) check out ddeokbokkey on tumblr, they have a wide range of Korean fonts available!

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ann1914 #1
Nice edits! I like the 'Goodnight, Hyung' one (plus I love 49 Days, hehe). I agree that typography is definitely important when making graphics. When I first started out with graphic requests, I was always trying to find new fonts to download and stuff. That eventually stopped when my computer couldn't take it anymore though, aha. OTL
taempteng #2
Thank you for this entry! It definitely helps for a person’s inspiration on how to make a poster. :D I so happen to have a new request, so I shall try this with my current request! XD
chroma #3
aside from natural coloring, typography is my other love bcs I can use it for different purposes but mainly to conceal the ugly part of the graphic I'm too lazy t fix lolol <3
stonee #4
It's hard to advice people from copying others style because they would usually recycle the old designs and honestly we can't make copyright for style design or ideas.

But anyway, your simple typography match the designs so I guess in the end it need to compliment the design. It need to be balance with the poster or else it might look mess up **cough**me**cough**
donghaesbread #5
ooh that's cool!
I would've never thought that you got those end products with those posters in inspiration. :D

but sadly I at typography and the only thing I know how to do is to make the text glow. ;; u ;;
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