O BROTHER , Where Art Thou?

07/30/2018

A 2000 movie directed by the Coen brothers. It is a comedy set in rural Mississippi in 1937. It is a masterpiece about a prisoner who escapes from a rural town and goes on a strange journey during the Great Depression. The font used is Brothers, a modern version of wood type, and it is no coincidence that O Brother, Coen Brothers, and the font is Brothers, which shows the designer's playful spirit.

Typeface

Brother is display font that design by John Downer for Emigre 1999.The inspiration for Brothers came from a bright chromolithographed letterhead designed around the turn of the century for the COLE BROTHERS traveling shows.

Council is Display font witch have both quality of woodtype and hand lettering , design for emigre by same designer of Brother John Downer 1999.Council was inspired by the capital letters, planographically printed, on a candy tin Downer bought at an antique store.The tin is the size and shape of a hat box, and it was made in the early 1900s for John G. Woodward & Co. of Council Bluffs, Iowa