Wattstax (film) Font

Wattstax was a 1972 benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert was filmed and made into the 1973 film titled, Wattstax.

The above is the theatrical poster for the film and the font used for the film title is ITC Pioneer. Designed by Ronne Bonder and Tom Carnase, Pioneer is an experimental all-caps font that takes on a technical, cool look. The figures are backed by a shadow, making them look three-dimensional.

The ITC Pioneer font identified above is not available for free, please follow the link above and purchase a font license to download and use the font. Meanwhile, you can take a look at our collection of fonts for cars, pop music and apparel as well as round-ups of new & fresh fonts around the web.

In addition to Wattstax (film), ITC Pioneer typeface is also used in the following logos, movie posters or album covers, etc., including: Shaft’s Big Score, BlacKkKlansman.