Typeset In The Future is back with another cracking analysis. This time—following on from 2001 and Moon—we’ve got Alien.
In her final recorded message before hypersleep, Ripley notes that she is the sole survivor of the Nostromo. What she forgets to mention is that she has not once in the past two hours encountered any Eurostile Bold Extended.
Cardigans are not entirely necessary for a show or a film to fit within the Cardigan sci-fi subgenre (although they certainly help). It’s the lack of polish in the world, it’s the absence of technological fetishism in the science fiction itself. The science or the tools or the spaceships do not sit at the heart of Cardigan sci-fi — it’s all about the people that wear the cardigans instead.
Marvin has some competition! Here’s another beautiful sci-fi variable font:
MD Nichrome is a display typeface based on the typography of paperback science fiction from the 70s and early 80s.
The latest edition in this wonderful series of science-fictional typography has some truly twisty turbolift tangents.
B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
A nice free and open source font designed for digital interfaces:
Inter UI is a font for highly legible text on computer screens.
Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Feline-based communication.
The fiftieth anniversary of the greatest film ever made.
Revisiting Spielberg’s films after a decade and a half.
Day five.