Always a question when publishing a screenplay as a book: typeset with Courier, per the actual working drafts used in the industry, or with a proper text face like a novel? Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is set in Sabon (my favorite text typeface):
Discussion
nostr:npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209 I heard this on of those famous people interview shows. There was a guy who wrote some incredibly famous movie, and he was like “boy, I should take a class” and the screenplay they studied was his script.
nostr:npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209 Tschichold released Sabon the same year as Oppenheimer’s death (1967). So, did Nolan select it on that fact or because it is a total banger of a typeface?
nostr:npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209 I think I’d consider using Matthew Butterick’s Triplicate in its proportional variant. Still gets the “typewriter” feel, but higher readability and it’s a surprisingly pretty typeface.
nostr:npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209 I’ll report this to the Tschichold family