Marble Hornets
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The front cover of the Marble Hornets Blu-ray release
Marble Hornets is a found footage web series created by Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage, based on the original Slender Man mythos. The YouTube series ran for three seasons between June 20th, 2009, and June 20th, 2014. The main story follows Jay Merrick as he attempts to uncover what happened to his friend, Alex Kralie, following the sudden cancellation of his unfinished student film named Marble Hornets as something starts invading his life.
Every episode (or entry as is called by the series) starts with a title card and is accompanied with snippets of text throughout the video written by one of the main characters to express their thoughts, current predicament, actions they'll take or describe contents on tapes they've found. All of this text is set in Verdana Bold, which continues to be used in the 2025 spin-off series, Rosswood.
Outside of the episodes, Marble Hornet’s branding exclusively uses Camcorder, a fitting typeface for a series revolving around cameras. It is used in promotional material, comics, merchandise and physical releases. It is also used in most of the videos by totheark, a separate YouTube channel existing within the Marble Hornets universe that uploads cryptic and genuinely unnerving videos pertaining to events and characters of the main story.
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The very first episode, aptly titled “Introduction”
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From Entry #52. They started outlining Verdana Bold in black around the start of Season 2.
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An instance of Camcorder used for the VCR overlay in Entry #37, accompanied by a familiar face, or lack thereof.
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From Conversion, by totheark
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From Isolation, by totheark
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Marble Hornets’ Season 3 DVD front cover
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Inside the Season 3 DVD case
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Front cover of the first comic for Marble Hornets. Camcorder is used for the names.
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