Orbitron

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Orbitron Regular
• Medium 500Orbitron Medium
• SemiBold 600Orbitron SemiBold
• Bold 700Orbitron Bold
• ExtraBold 800Orbitron ExtraBold
• Black 900Orbitron Black

Orbitron is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Orbitron

Orbitron is a geometric sans serif drawn for display use. In the specimen the round letters are rounded rectangles, the strokes keep a constant thickness, the letters are wide, and the zero is crossed by a diagonal slash. The lowercase follows the same squared construction as the capitals. Matt McInerney designed the face, and the official notes place it in the world of science-fiction films: spaceship hulls, space station signs and the posters for such films. It was first published by The League of Moveable Type and, according to the notes, remastered as a variable font in 2019. The weight axis runs from 400 to 900 with six named weights, Regular to Black. There is no italic. The font contains 266 glyphs and a Latin subset only. Orbitron was added to Google Fonts in 2010.

Where Orbitron works

Game and sci-fi titles

Squared letterforms and a slashed zero match scoreboards, menus and title screens with a futuristic theme.

Technology logos

Wide letters of constant stroke make a short name into a compact wordmark.

Film and event posters

Black 900 fills a poster headline with solid rectangular shapes.

Interface headings and counters

Numerals built from the same rounded rectangles suit timers, levels and dashboard figures.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Finnish
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Orbitron

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Orbitron on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Orbitron";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Orbitron-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Orbitron", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Orbitron with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Orbitron:wght@400..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Basic Latin only

With 266 glyphs and no Latin Extended subset, Orbitron lacks the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and the Scandinavian languages apart from Swedish.

No weights below Regular

The axis starts at 400; there is no Light or Thin.

Wide letters

Lines set in Orbitron take more horizontal space than the same text in a normal-width sans.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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