[HN Gopher] Science Fiction Movie Lettering
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       Science Fiction Movie Lettering
        
       Author : CharlesW
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2023-05-05 15:33 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (reaganray.com)
        
       | dailyplanet wrote:
       | The page displays the movie title logos for Superman I-III but
       | not Superman IV or Man Of Steel. I suppose that's a selection
       | bias from the website owner Reagan Ray.
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       | Here's his page on Marvel Comics title logos:
       | https://reaganray.com/2021/04/06/marvel-lettering.html
        
       | Mountain_Skies wrote:
       | Interesting absence of scanlines. Close Encounters of the Third
       | Kind has them but a image search appears to indicate that was
       | only used in a few cases. The Matrix has somewhat of a scanline
       | inspired artifact and Tron could be argued to be somewhere
       | between the other two. Given how many consumer logos of the late
       | 70s and 80s were influenced by scanlines, it's interesting that
       | sci-fi logos appear to have mostly avoided their use.
        
       | jjj123 wrote:
       | The original alien lettering is haunting. Simple but it's my
       | favorite on the list!
        
         | sneak wrote:
         | I am fairly certain it inspired the Monument Valley title card.
        
       | sudobash1 wrote:
       | I would also recommend checking out the "Typeset in the Future"
       | website [1]. It does a bit of a deep dive on several films,
       | trying to identify the fonts visible, not only on the title
       | logos, but also on labels, in-universe logos, etc. My favorite is
       | the 2001 Space Odyssey one [2]
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       | 1: https://typesetinthefuture.com/
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       | 2: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/01/31/2001-a-space-
       | odyss...
        
         | fanf2 wrote:
         | The book is very nice too!
        
       | karaterobot wrote:
       | Pretty cool. I'd love to see it sorted by year of release, since
       | the change in style over time, as new fads and technologies
       | emerge, is a pretty interesting story to track.
        
         | dclowd9901 wrote:
         | +1 on this; first thought I had while scrolling through
        
         | SnooSux wrote:
         | Definitely! You can tell that the idea of what constitutes
         | high-tech changes over time. Alphaville (1965) has letters that
         | look like they're made of stiff wires and The Terminator
         | (College Roadshow Version) (1984) uses a 7-segment display
         | style font (with plenty of liberties taken). Both of these look
         | old-fashioned in retrospect but at the time probably evoked
         | very modern imagery.
        
       | bosco2010 wrote:
       | A post about typography in sci-fi movies and no mention of
       | Avatar?!
        
         | oneforty4 wrote:
         | The author said "There are a lot of movies out there, so I
         | ended up setting some guidelines on what to include, the first
         | being no movies past the year 2000."
        
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