Marty Supreme movie logo and posters
Teaser poster
From Wikipedia:
Marty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by Josh Safdie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ronald Bronstein, loosely based on the life and career of American table tennis player Marty Reisman. Co-produced by and starring Timothée Chalamet, the film also features Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher in supporting roles.
The main posters feature the title in a stretched and manipulated version of Gill Kayo Condensed and corresponding headers in Neue Helvetica Condensed, including its Heavy style. The billing block is set in Bee Two.
Eric Gill, the designer of Gill Sans, initially called the ultrabold style “Sans Double Elefans”. Released as Kayo, derived from “K.O.” (i.e. knockout in boxing), it feels appropriate for the main movie title on the poster, as it is a very prominent typeface used in sports.
The movie logo compared to a resetting in Gill Kayo Condensed with stretched letterforms. Various subsequent optimizations have been made, see for example the horizontals in T and E, the counters in A and Y, or the bottom of U. In the process, some glyphs like R ended up resembling Gill Sans Extra Condensed Bold.
Timothée and Josh Safdie imitating the Marty Mauser pose at the Marty Supreme black carpet in Los Angeles.
Gwyneth Paltrow in front of the movie logo
3 Comments on “Marty Supreme movie logo and posters”
The design of the poster with the big portrait photo looks like a throwback to seventies movie posters, with the row of tightly cropped photos of supporting characters in a row of boxes along the bottom.
David Rudnick writes on X:
Thanks. Does this extend to the movie logo and posters shown here?
All I’ve seen credited to Special Forces so far is the Marty Supreme Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on A24’s website – which doesn’t feature the Gill Kayo-based logo.
IMP Awards credits the posters to BLT, who do show the teaser poster on their website.