In this black satire, Kubrick challenges the audience by bringing a Cold War parody to the screen at the very height of tensions between the United States and the USSR. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, released in 1964, he added comedy to the list. Stanley Kubrick’s filmography includes everything from thrillers to war films, period pieces to erotic dramas. Many scenes from his films have been etched into our imaginations – the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jack Nicholson’s axe in The Shining, the pedicure in Lolita and the menacing walk of the droogs in A Clockwork Orange.īut what typefaces did Kubrick use to introduce these powerful movies? And what are the stories behind the lettering used on his most famous posters? Today, we’re taking a closer look at a selection of the fonts used by Kubrick in some of his most famous releases, as well exploring his typographic passions. He made relatively few films – 13 in a career spanning almost 50 years – yet in each of them he always explored new stories, emotions and settings: from deep space to the Vietnam war, from ancient Rome to the intimate psychology of a couple. Stanley Kubrick is one of the most celebrated directors of all time.
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