Font Research for My Trailer and Poster Titles

I need to choose a font for my titles that is appropriate for the horror genre. I have some ideas of the styles of font I would like to use having looked at a number of title sequences for horror movies and by looking at the fonts used in horror film marketing campaigns, but first I am going to look at a range of font websites, considering the pros and cons of using those sites to help me find the best font to use.

The first website I am looking at is Linotype. 

This website discusses font licensing, font design and font technology. The website also sells fonts. 

Here are the pros and cons of the website.

Pros: 

• Gives you information on the font
• Shows you the font on a poster and on letters 

Cons: 

• Hard to navigate 
• Only have fonts for older movies (up until 2013) 
• They are not available for free 

Next site I looked at was Font Meme.

This website divides fonts into categories, such as movies, TV show, albums and brands. It also sub-divides fonts further by genre, including for horror films and TV shows. 

Here are the pros and cons of this website.

Pros: 

• Has a wide range of fonts 
• Fonts are categorised by genre
• Easy to navigate because of clear categories

Cons: 

• You are charged for the fonts

Then I looked at a site called Fontyuckle.

This website has many different downloadable fonts. 

Pros: 

• Has a wide range of fonts 
• Fonts are free to download

Cons: 

• Fonts are not divided by genre/category
• You have to know the name of the font to access it

Lastly, I looked at Dafont.

This website uses key words to organise their fonts, including categories that will be useful for horror films. 

Pros: 

• Easy to navigate through key words and genre
• All fonts are free 
• Can search for specific fonts
• Can try out the title of your film in each font

Cons:

• Searching is very time-consuming because there are so many fonts