Chernobyl: Title Typography and Design Thread

Saw it as well as I follow the subreddit. Not sure whether people here will like it but I did — definitely it's about the little things since designers geek over these small details.

Nonetheless I loved the typography as well (and the show)

TL;DR specifically about the font:

> essentially they created a font, as far as I understand. And the font was kind of inspired by Cyrillic fonts. And there’s a number of Cyrillic fonts that came out of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had their own state-run typography department and they did create a number of fonts, including something called – well, it’s referred to as Poor Man’s Futura. There’s a bunch of them. Anyway, the point is rather than font out and dork out, what we went for was that. Essentially an English font that conveyed the truth of what Soviet fonts looked like at the time.

They’ve got weird kerning. Some of the numbers are slightly bizarre for us. And then we messed around with the color a little bit and we fuzzed some of the edges just to make it feel like it was part of 1986.

https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/burcqg/abso...

segment from the podcast is at 55m 37s:

http://scriptnotes.net/401-you-got-verve