Two styles of Schaedler’s Alpha were used in the film’s promotional campaign, the solid Alpha Midnight and Alpha Sunrise (with perspective shadow). See an overview of all four styles at the end of a previous post.
I grew up with the original poster in the family’s lake cabin. It used to scare all the kids! This is where my obsession with Alpha and its origin comes from. Before I could make out that Alpha Sunrise was an existing font, it looked shadow-y and noir-ish. A perfect fit for my hometown’s most famous unsolved mystery!
I know local people that were in the 1976 movie and I was actually present for a lot of the filming for the horrible 2014 remake.
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I grew up with the original poster in the family’s lake cabin. It used to scare all the kids! This is where my obsession with Alpha and its origin comes from. Before I could make out that Alpha Sunrise was an existing font, it looked shadow-y and noir-ish. A perfect fit for my hometown’s most famous unsolved mystery!
I know local people that were in the 1976 movie and I was actually present for a lot of the filming for the horrible 2014 remake.
I’m also probably going to digitize the unidentified.