It just doesn’t get more “1960s Spaghetti Western Cool” than Day of Anger’s opening titles. Played out over impressive music by composer Riz Ortolani, these animated credits are a bizarre mix of Maurice Binder’s work in the James Bond films and the opening credits of the television series The Wild Wild West. They even feature a tiny, animated Lee Van Cleef shooting certain names right off the screen—bang, bang! It is all here: animation, solarization, intense primary colors. — F This Movie!
The type is a stretched Magnet, originally designed by Arthur Murawski for Ludwig & Mayer in fairly condensed form.
To my knowledge, neither the original Magnet nor this stretched version has been turned into a digital font. Designs with horizontal stress are back in fashion (see DJR’s page for a list), but there are not a lot of inclined options. DJR’s own Trilby, Alejandro Lo Celso’s Atahualpa, or Nina Stössinger’s Nordvest are exceptions in this regard. You could always mechanically slant a “Wild West” font like Westside or similar, but in most cases, this won’t give you a satisfying italic, nor a monocular a.
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Was this ever converted to a digital typeface? Or has anyone made a comparable replica?
To my knowledge, neither the original Magnet nor this stretched version has been turned into a digital font. Designs with horizontal stress are back in fashion (see DJR’s page for a list), but there are not a lot of inclined options. DJR’s own Trilby, Alejandro Lo Celso’s Atahualpa, or Nina Stössinger’s Nordvest are exceptions in this regard. You could always mechanically slant a “Wild West” font like Westside or similar, but in most cases, this won’t give you a satisfying italic, nor a monocular a.
The closest ready-made options probably are the bolder italic styles of Cabrito Inverto, or Aldo Novarese’s Estro. See also Sudety and the italic styles of CoFo Chimera, Postino, and Hatchet Display.