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Another favourite title sequence of mine is the opening credits for Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca (1997), designed by Michael Riley for Imaginary Forces. Other than Illustrator and Fontographer for editing and setting type, no other digital process was used in the sequence. I like the subtle touch of mixing sans-serif characters with the mainly serif titles: Riley says his team created a custom typeface for the end crawl that contained the G, T, C and A glyphs from Avenir and the remaining character set from Mrs Eaves — those four particular letters represent the four DNA bases, and were used to form the fictitious placename of the film’s title.