Kit Blog takes a look at Woody Allen’s use of Windsor-EF Elongated, the font in which the director has rendered the opening and/or closing credits of almost every project since Annie Hall. The analysis doesn’t fully answer Kit’s question of whether Allen’s Windsor addiction is “a Kubrick-eque case of typographic fetish or if Woody Allen built a visual identity in order to brand his products,” but through a commenter, he is able to offer a clue as to how the filmmaker landed on his font of choice.

Apparently Woody Allen used to eat breakfast at the same diner as typographer Ed Benguiat. “On one occasion,” says the commenter, “Referring to Benguiat as a ‘printer,’ Allen asked him what a good typeface was. Benguiat had an affinity for Windsor and suggested it to him that morning. He’s used it in every film since.” Kit Blog offers visual proof that this breakfast meeting must have happened after 1975 but before 1977, because with the exception of Interiors, each Allen feature, short film and TV production has used Windsor since Annie Hall. More here.

[Via YesButNoButYes]