In the way-back of once-upon-a-time film making, a movie’s title sequence was a quiet passage: A place to credit the makers and stars, to listen to the orchestral score, and, to whatever you had going on in your head. The main-on-end (MOE) titles we created for Marvel Studios Avengers: The Infinity Wars, are just that. They had to be.

At the end of a story where we have just watched our heroes turned to dust, we needed to fade to black, providing a quiet coda for viewers to process a whirl of stunned thoughts.

The credits roll slowly, classic white EB Garamond Medium type on a black screen, pacing slowly with the somber closing music from composer Alan Silvestri.  Each name has its due, finishing with a final, quiet flourish: The main-title card appears in solid type, and then, dissolves as the heroes had, into puffs of dust that disappear into space.