One rating
Every listing on this site is either rated O or it is not, and that is the whole system. O means the film plays once or twice at that venue, or on 3 dates with a single showtime each. There is no second grade, no scale, and nothing to interpret.
The form is borrowed from the green card that runs before a trailer, because that card is doing the same job: a small, official-looking block that tells you one fact about what you are looking at before you look at it. The ring is the letter O and the hole in a reel, which is the only joke on the site.
Contains
screenings that
happen once
The block reversed out of the green plate, at 150px. The plate carries its own ground, so it does not change in dark mode.
Three forms, one construction
The block, the compact block and the stamp are the same grid at three sizes. Everything scales from a single height variable, so nothing is redrawn and nothing can be redrawn slightly wrong.
Contains
screenings that
happen once
The 24px stamp is the one that appears in the listings, beside a film title. It is hidden inside the filtered view, where every row is rated O and the stamp would say nothing.
Format is a rarity ramp, not a colour
A print is rarer than a file, so the badge gets heavier as the format gets rarer: 70mm is solid, 35mm is a two-pixel rule, 16mm is a hairline. No hue is involved, which means the ramp survives being printed, being colour-blind, and being viewed in either scheme.
A 4K restoration is a digital file however it is advertised, so it is a fact for the credit line rather than a badge.
What was deliberately not taken
The rating card is the reference. The rating scale is not. G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 are a judgement about content, made by somebody else, and this site knows nothing about the content of any film it lists. An earlier draft of this page showed those badges and it was wrong: the data has no rating field, so every one of them would have been invented.
O is not a content rating. It is a scarcity rating, and it is the only claim the site is in a position to make.
Colour
The neutrals are the same tokens as the rest of middleton.io, so this subsite computes to the same greys as everything else. The green belongs to the plate alone. Every pair below is measured, not estimated.
| Token | Light | Dark | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
--bg | #F4F4F5 | #0F0F12 | The page |
--ink | #111113 | #F2F2F4 | Titles and anything that has to be read first |
--ink2 | #5B5B62 | #A2A2AC | Ledger fields and credits. 6.13:1 light, 7.56:1 dark |
--rule-strong | #8B8B90 | #656570 | Anything that has to read as an object. 3.08:1 |
--c2-text | #AB3142 | #E8697C | Cancellation, and nothing else |
--ono-green | #14432F | #14432F | The plate. Carries its own ground, so it never flips |
Type
Two faces doing two jobs. Helvetica for anything a person reads as language: film titles, this paragraph, a director credit. A monospace for anything that behaves like a field in a ledger: times, venues, counts, the rating itself. A venue name repeats hundreds of times down the page and earns the ledger register; a director's name is a name and does not.