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Reagan Ray
Personal blog · reaganray.comdesignculture
Reagan Ray's personal blog at reaganray.com covers design and culture. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Science Fiction Movie Lettering”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Reagan Ray's pages on movie and comic title lettering. One commenter cited the science fiction lettering page to show the Iron Maiden logo resembles a 1976 film's title font.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a designer working on Luro in Austin, Texas. I also blog about logos, movies, music, and a bunch of other stuff.
Most-linked posts?
- Science Fiction Movie Lettering3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-03
What Hacker News says?
Iron Maiden was one of the first bands that I got into and they had (and presumably still have) incredible visual imagery and graphic design. But, today I learned that the typeface for their logo¹ was not original. It’s very similar to the The Man Who Fell to Earth ² which came out in 1976 (the only letter that looks different is the ‘E’). ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iron_Maiden_Logo.png ² https://reaganray…
Comment linking /img/blog/sci-fi-logos/the-man-who-fell.jpg
on “Science Fiction Movie Lettering”Submitted Railway Logos (2018) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe 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. Here's his page on Marvel Comics title logos: https://reaganray.com/2021/04/06/marvel-lettering.html
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on “Science Fiction Movie Lettering”Submitted Science Fiction Movie Lettering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science Fiction Movie Lettering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video Game Console Logos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science Fiction Movie Lettering as a story · 1 points
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