M & H Type goes Hollywood, thanks to Daniel Day-Lewis

Look for a film credit for typecaster Kenny Howard of M & H Type when you view the forthcoming film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood. Day-Lewis and director Paul Thomas Anderson recommended M & H to do the titles and credits after the two of them saw the 1979 Arion Press Moby-Dick and were taken with the typography. Last month, Howard was busy hand-setting the film’s main titles in Goudy Text and Goudy Modern, the typefaces used in the dedication to Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Melville novel. He used digital versions for the rest of the credits. The only directive he received from the client was not to make the black-letter type look “too Dracula”. The film is based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!