Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie posters
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Sep 16th, 2025. Artwork published in
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Pakistani/British Quad (30″×40″) poster
They’re Taking Trains…
They’re Taking Banks
And They’re Taking
One Piece Of Baggage!
One of the more prominent uses of Hobo: the often-derided typeface without any straight lines features on the posters for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The 1969 western buddy film is set in 1899 Wyoming – which makes the typeface choice almost period correct: Hobo was first issued by American Type Founders in 1910.
One sheet (27″×41″) Style B poster. In this variant, Hobo is heavier than usual, see especially the pink lines. Maybe that’s because the setting was derived from an outlined setting, see the posters below.
Half Sheet (22″×28″) poster
Australian One Sheet (27″×40″) poster
