Semiotic Standard
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The Semiotic Standard For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft. (shortened to just "Semiotic Standard")[1] was used in the film Alien in the ship Nostromo. It is a set of 34 symbols used to represent various concepts in the ship such as "coffee" or "radiation hazard". The original set included 31 symbols and was designed by Ron Cobb.[2]
Colour Scheme[edit]
Red: Viable, Sound, Alive, Alertness
White/Grey: Life-supporting condition, pressure, temperature
Black: Vacuum, Death, Hazard
Yellow: Harmful, Active process, Molecular, Heat, Radioactive, Chemical
Blue: Lowered thermal condition
Green: Non-human organic substance.
References[edit]
- ^ "Alien". Typeset In The Future. 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
- ^ "Ron Cobb's Semiotic Standards for Alien…". Joe Blogs. 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
