Equilibrium movie posters
The posters for the film Equilibrium directed by Kurt Wimmer use the typeface Mata. The film was produced by Dimension Films and Blue Tulip Productions.
We see here various posters made for this dystopic science fiction film released in 2003. They portray the three main actors, Christian Bale, Emily Watson, and Taye Diggs. The central figure is law enforcement officer John Preston, played by Christian Bale. The style of the poster was quite common for films like this one from around the early 2000s, with a play of light and dark as well as focus. The type treatment leans into this futuristic aesthetic, too, with the chrome texture and the glow effect.
So is the use of Mata: the same typeface can be found in use for a film released the year before: Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.
1 Comment on “Equilibrium movie posters”
Nathan, do you happen to know if these posters really date from the film’s release in 2002? Or where they made at a later point, or maybe for a specific region? The source links you provided were inconclusive. I’m asking because the posters I’m familiar with use a different (yet related) typeface, Lord Haw-Haw. I prepared a post about those posters:
Furthermore, I’d like to point out that the first poster you show doesn’t use the retail version of Mata. See especially the B and R in comparison to the posters below. Slant aside, the letterforms appear to match the customized ones seen on the Spider-Man posters from 2002 that you mentioned.
And what’s up with the spacing? Sequences like LIB or RIU are not exactly balanced.
I don’t know maybe the European poster? for the spacing is dont know why the logo have this extra spacing modifications