I'm not affiliated in any way, but Dave Addey's book of the same name as the blog is fantastic. Highly recommended if you're into weirdly specific stuff like why there's specific text on the motion scanner Ripley uses in Alien. (spoilers: IIRC it's just Letraset gibberish)
The book is very nice. Coffee table books for true nerds, next to Tufte. But I wish there were more recent updates or a 2nd volume where they look at newer material, like "person of interest", "Black matter", "The Expanse", ...
I also have the book, and agree that it is very nicely put together. A sequel would definitely be in order, given that we seem to be in a third age of science fiction.
> The problem here is obvious, isn’t it? Unlike the Es in “SHATNER” and “LEONARD,” the ones in “DEFOREST KELLEY” have straight corners, not curved ones:
Was this a mistake? Intentional? Are these letters hand drawn? Stenciled?
Any graphic artists in the house?
They could be contextual alternates, but they seem to defy any sort of logic to support that. Seems like a mistake/oddity.
Notice how the E in the Horizon font specimen also shows straight corners- perhaps they forgot to use their handcrafted version? Strange thing to not point out in the text...
I read way too far into this article wondering when it would start talking about the topography of that giant cloud thing.