Donnie Darko title card
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Donnie Darko is a psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze and Noah Wyle,
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The original poster art for the movie had used an Arabic-style font, but this was changed to the more common Trajan typeface for the video release, after the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. However, the font retains its original style in the movie.
The typeface in question isn’t Arabic, just calligraphic. Ondine was created by Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger while working for Deberny & Peignot in Paris, France. It’s here used with enlarged, squeezed and slightly rotated lowercase d’s for the initials. The contours of the letterforms – originally cut with scissors – were roughened up.
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