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《异形》的字体设计（2014）
Typography of “Alien” (2014)
2016 — 2021，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
这篇文章深入剖析了科幻电影《异形》(1979) 中的字体与平面设计细节，包括 Nostromo 飞船上的标志、自毁系统界面、低温休眠舱警示图标等。作者逐帧考证了这些看似随意的道具设计背后精心构思的符号系统，以及 70 年代迷幻文化对设计的渗透。
为什么经久不衰：它揭示了一部经典电影中容易被忽略的设计匠心，这种对细节的考据式解读让影迷和设计师每次重看都能发现新东西。
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文章对图标设计的细致分析令人大开眼界
我很喜欢这类文章，这些细节我平时根本不会注意到。尤其欣赏那些精心设计的图标：低温休眠舱的蓝色三角指向小人、光子系统用光纤通道构成字母 F、辐射警示里倒地的小人和病态的亮橙色。自毁控制台上出现 SHAKTI EXCESS、PADME 这些迷幻元素也很有趣。
rdtsc查看英文原文
I really like these kinds of articles. I would have never noticed most of these details. Enjoyed the carefully thought out icon design: https://typesetinthefuture.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/alien_semiotic_01_full.jpg Cryogenic vault -- the blue triangle pointing down to a stick figure. Photonic system -- has the letter F shaped by what looks like fiber optic channels. Radiation hazard is great too -- a stick figure dead on the ground, with the sickly bright orange color filling the top of the square. Then not all details could be consistent of course. And the whole self-destuct French vs English instruction bit was funny. Then the completely off the wall stuff-- 70s psychadelics creeped into the keyboard design, that was fascinating. What else would you put on a self-destruct computer console than "SHAKTI EXCESS", "PADME" and reference to a phychadelic trip?
前两部《异形》的克制配乐同样体现了对观众的尊重
《异形》前两部还有一个很棒的地方是配乐非常克制而微妙。这些电影不需要用持续的音乐来告诉观众该想什么、感受什么、注意什么，这本身就是一种了不起的效果。
msane查看英文原文
Another great aspect of the first two Alien movies is that the musical score is very sparse and subtle. Those films don't need to use constant music to tell the viewer what to think or feel or notice, which is an amazing effect on it's own.
推荐游戏《异形：隔离》来体验同样的美学
如果你想进一步欣赏《异形》的字体和美学，2014 年的游戏《异形：隔离》是绝佳选择。它鼓励你探索废弃的塞瓦斯托波尔空间站，整个场景忠实还原了原版电影的美学，到处都是终端机和背景资料。
izacus查看英文原文
If you want to admire more of the typography and great aestetic of Alien, the 2014 game Alien: Isolation is perfect for that. It pretty much encourages you to explore it's decomissioned (and of course Alien infested) Sevastopol station, which is lovingly built to mirror the original movie aestetic and it's full of terminals and other lore pieces :)
质疑作者对单位混用问题的过度解读
这不只是差了十倍，而是完全不同的计量单位。机械领域经常混用公制和英制零件，这并不是大问题。而且 Nostromo 电脑上的显示是电影内的设定，片头字幕不是——就算把货物标成 11.7 万亿英钱矿石也无妨。
cratermoon查看英文原文
This article repeats the story about the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter because of a mix-up in units. That's not really the story. The navigation team had figured out the problem well in advance, and requested an additional course correction maneuver that would have put the spacecraft back where it should have been. Their concerns were either ignored or overruled by management. https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-mars-probe-went-off-course See also "A critical flaw was a program management grown too confident and too careless, even to the point of missing opportunities to avoid the disaster." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/809121
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