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Semiotic Standard

The Semiotic Standard For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft. (shortened to just "Semiotic Standard") 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.

Colour Scheme

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

Semiotic Standard Wikipedia