Teddy Blanks1xbet, a neatly mustached 40-year-old man wearing ripped jeans and battered white sneakers, walked through Times Square one cold recent night to catch a screening of “Wicked” at an AMC multiplex. He hadn’t yet seen the film, and he was eager to see one particular shot: the movie’s opening title.

Settling into a theater seat, Mr. Blanks reflected on the typeface that appears at the movie’s start. It reads “Wicked: Part 1” and fills the screen in a gigantic folksy font during an aerial landscape shot of Oz. It was his handiwork.

“I partly based it on old chapter letterings from L. Frank Baum’s first ‘Oz’ book,” he said. “I wanted it to have a dose of nostalgia. Me and the director, Jon Chu, went through like 20 W variations until it had the perfect serifs and curves.”

The contention that police officials had minimized the severity of Ms. Gahalal’s injury came a day after the Police Department released video footage of the episode that appeared unlikely to end questions about whether the officers had acted appropriately under the circumstances.

Late last year, the app introduced WhatsApp Channels, a kind of one-way broadcasting system that allows publishers to send links and headlines directly to followers. Numerous outlets are using it as a way to draw in readers and build direct relationships with an audience that is largely outside the United States.

As the magical world of Oz illuminated the audience’s faces, Mr. Blanks pointed at the screen when his title appeared. Then he boyishly tucked his feet up onto the seat, sipping a Coke and snacking on Reese’s Pieces, and watched with them.

His name may have flashed by in the end credits, but in the niche field of movie title design, Mr. Blanks is one of the most sought-after craftsmen of this cinematic art form.

Some of Mr. Blanks’s typeface work. “Teddy is able to take my ideas further than I imagined them,” said the director Robert Eggers, whose new film “Nosferatu” received the Blanks treatment.Credit...Teddy Blanks, CHIPS

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