Cochin associations

Is there some book or magazine that associates the font Cochin with the horror genre? I had been reading an anthology from Weird Tales magazine which uses Cochin. Then, last night I saw a trailer for some upcoming horror movie that used Cochin in all of its quotes and lettering. That is only two instances, so maybe I am jumping to conclusions. I could not find a recommendation of Cochin for macabre subjects at the Adobe or Linotype sites. Just curious.

If it isn't in Trajan, it isn't a movie title.

I remember seeing Cochin a lot 15 years ago or so, particularly the italic. The d glyph is so distinctive (nearly the math symbol for partial derivative) that it is easy to recognize.

Can't say I saw if dominating in the horror genre.

On May 21, 6:36 pm, Tom_DeM...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Is there some book or magazine that associates the font Cochin with the horror genre? I had been reading an anthology from Weird Tales magazine which uses Cochin. Then, last night I saw a trailer for some upcoming horror movie that used Cochin in all of its quotes and lettering. That is only two instances, so maybe I am jumping to conclusions. I could not find a recommendation of Cochin for macabre subjects at the Adobe or Linotype sites. Just curious.

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According to "Encyclopaedia of Type Faces" (Jaspert, Berry, Johnson):
"This type (Cochin) was also known as Sonderdruck. The Deberny &
Peignot version of which this type appears to be a copy, is called
Moreau-le-Jeune, and was also cut around 1912 as Gravure by Amsterdam,
and these types also have an open version. The Lanston Monotype Cochin
was irst shown 1915, and adapted two years later by Sol Hess, with the
bold following in the 1920s. Nicolas Cochin of the same foundry,
followd in 1929." (The samples displayed in the book was of Ludwig &
Mayer's version (1929) and others. These all refer to the metal type
versions, of course.

Bill

Horror genre? Hmmm. Bold sans serifs with hard drop shadows. Fonts dripping with blood. Grunge fonts. Cochin? Too pretty -- unless you want to use it as a counterpoint. For example, I can see an elegant calligraphic script used for horror -- if used in the right way.

Neil

And Trajan is way overused in Hollywood.

Neil

One of my favourite names for a digital font was for one of those horror blood-dripping type ones. It was called PostCrypt.

<lol>

Neil

Cochin doesn't conjure horror images for me by itself, but I thought the use in movie trailer (sorry, don't remember the name) was effective, but it also relies on dark colors and texture for contrast. Also, Cochin does not go it alone in my book, either. The book uses one of those blood dripping fonts for story titles (not so effective in black and white). It's not PostCrypt however, which is apparently still out there for download, according to Google.