Camm Rowland was the Type Designer behind the gorgeous font used in the opening credits of 'True Blood'. He was influenced by makeshift signage that he saw along the roadside.
To create the 'True' family fonts he drew each letter by hand, cut each letter out with an x-acto knife, and then scanned them in to the computer. He created 8 font families altogether!
The fonts used in the opening sequence of the show were a mixture between “True Gothic” and “True Blade” which had alternate characters and weights - so it adds to the hand made quality.
I found a great site that has a behind the scenes look at how the opening sequences were filmed by Digital Kitchen (who also filmed the opening sequences of Dexter and Six Feet Under)
I spent the whole weekend watching this new series called 'True Blood' and I am obsessed... we are up to Episode 9 and even now I am thinking about the hours I have to wait before my husband gets home so we can watch the next episode... I even thought about just watching it while he wasn't here and then pretending like I didn't know what was happening when we watched it together. See I'm obsessed. Normal people don't think this way about a television series...
As the name might suggest it is a show about vampires - so I guess for me it was love at first bite... (oh that's really bad sorry!)
~Bec
Note: Anna Paquin (the girl from 'The Piano') just won Best Actress at The Golden Globes so I guess I'm not the only one who likes it!
