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Woody Allen’s Windsor Fetish

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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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.

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