Overview
Student productions are expected to follow the program’s typography and font usage guidelines when creating titles, credits, posters, graphics, promotional materials, and other official production-related design assets. This includes using approved fonts where required and maintaining professional formatting standards across deliverables.
Consistent font usage helps create clearer, more professional presentation materials while supporting a more unified visual identity across the program. Typography is an important part of visual communication, and following established standards helps students develop stronger design habits while ensuring that production materials remain clean, legible, and appropriate for exhibition and distribution contexts.
Limitations on Usage
Fonts, like music and images, are protected by intellectual property law. Their use is governed by licensing agreements, and improper usage can lead to legal complications and limit a film’s ability to be distributed. To model professional industry standards and ensure that student work respects the rights of font creators, all fonts used in student productions must be properly licensed and accompanied by a verifiable chain-of-title.
Researching and clearing font licenses requires time from both students and faculty. On early production cycles, which operate on short post schedules, this time is better spent on core filmmaking tasks. These projects are therefore limited to vetted font sources with clear, institutionally-approved licensing. Greater flexibility is granted on capstone cycles, where students have more time and are expected to take responsibility for securing proper font rights.
F1 • F2 • F3 • M1 • M2 • M3
Students may only use fonts from the following sources:
- Google Fonts (licensing info)
- Adobe Fonts (licensing info)
- Self-created fonts
No other font sources are permitted on these projects.
FC • MC
Students may use fonts from any source, provided they can meet the following documentation requirements:
- A copy of the font file(s) used.
- A license document or purchase receipt that clearly states the usage rights and confirms permission to use the font in the film.
All font files and documentation must be submitted with final deliverables.
