| Accidental Presidency | |
|---|---|
| abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789.:,;(*!?'/\")£$€%^&-+@ | |
| The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog | |
| Info | |
| Author | Brandon Schoepf |
| License | Free |
| Download | dafont.com |
| Asphalt appearances | |
| Games | Asphalt Injection Asphalt 8: Airborne Asphalt Overdrive |
| Usage | Latin main font |
| Examples | Aston Martin Vantage 2018 RANK 1605 / 1653 |
| Beat a Race Time of 01:19:000 | |
| RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT | |
|
NOTORIOUS: 50% MORE LEAGUE POINTS | |
Accidental Presidency is a condensed semi-bold font used as the main font of Asphalt Injection, Asphalt 8: Airborne and Asphalt Overdrive. It comes in one font weight only and features a characteristic ampersand which may be familiar to many Asphalt 8 players from the well-known term “Research & Development”:
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Usage[]
Accidental Presidency is used for every Asphalt 8 in-game text except for the racing screens where displays and notifications are rendered in Monkirta Pursuit NC.
It marks a departure from the wide squared futuristic fonts of previous Asphalt games, for example Hemi Head Bold Italic in Asphalt 6: Adrenaline or Orbitron Zero in Asphalt 7: Heat which were typical for arcade games of their time.
Missing characters[]
Accidental Presidency does not have an em dash (—) or en dash (–). This is the reason why the 
1 Part -- D Box and 
1 Part -- C Box of Asphalt 8 have a double hyphen in their name which is often used when dashes are not available. The two boxes were added later to the game than the other 1-Part-Boxes which all have only one hyphen in their name. This inconsistency may be due to different authors responsible for the naming. Curiously, the English language version is the only one to show this glitch:
| Box | English | German | French | Russian |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 Part - B Box | 1 Teil - B-Box | 1 pièce - Boîte B | Набор B - 1 деталь |
|
|
1 Part -- D Box | 1 Teil - D-Box | 1 pièce - Boîte D | 1 деталь - набор D |
The Russian version has consistent hyphens, but the parts of the name have been swapped for the more recent boxes, perhaps also due to different translators. Some time-limited boxes like the 
Special Offer -- Racing Engine Box also have double hyphens. Besides, the phenomenon reappears in Asphalt Overdrive, for example in mission descriptions like "Final Stunt Run -- Prove your jump stunt skills".
Font size[]
As the font is very condensed, it is often difficult to read, especially when texts in other language versions are automatically rendered smaller to fit in the intended space. Furthermore, Accidental Presidency does not have a Cyrillic character subset, so the developers chose Cuprum Bold, a slightly less condensed font, which is by default rendered even smaller than the Latin font.
Comparison of English, German, French and Russian in-game texts all rendered in different font sizes due to different lengths
The name of the 
Limited-Edition Mid-Tech box, for example, is translated as follows (in standard font):
- Limited-Edition Mid-Tech (English)
- Limited Edition Mittel-Technik (German)
- Technologie intermédiaire en édition limitée (French)
- Лимитированное издание: Средний технабор (Russian)
Spacing and shadow[]
Example: All texts except those on white background have shadows.
As not only the characters themselves are condensed, but also the spacing between them is extremely narrow, the game almost always adds a shadow to increase contrast and readability. The only exceptions are buttons and menu bars with a naturally high contrast, like dark blue letters on white background.
Asphalt Wiki[]
Accidental Presidency can also be used on Asphalt Wiki. As it is rendered smaller than standard text, it is set to a font size of 120 % by default so that it has roughly the same size as standard text. Rendering text bigger than normal requires font sizes larger than 120 %.
- CSS
- Class:
font-a8,font-aooraccidental-presidency - Example:
<span class="font-a8">Example</span>→ Example
- Template
- Template: {{Font}}
- Example:
{{font|a8|Example}}→ Example
To add a shadow to text on non-white background, the shadow-a8 class can be added. Example:
{| class="background-a8"
| class="font-a8" | Low contrast, no shadow
|-
| class="font-a8 shadow-a8" | Higher contrast, shadow
|}
gives:
| Low contrast, no shadow |
| Higher contrast, shadow |
See also[]
Overview:
Fonts:
- Accidental Presidency – Latin main font of Asphalt Injection, Asphalt 8 and Asphalt Overdrive
- Asphalt Offroad – main font of Asphalt Xtreme
- Clear Sans – main font of Asphalt Nitro
- Cuprum Bold – Cyrillic main font of Asphalt 8 and Asphalt Overdrive
- Hemi Head Bold Italic – main font of Asphalt 6, Asphalt Audi RS 3 and Asphalt 3D
- License Plate – license plate font of Asphalt Overdrive
- Monkirta Pursuit NC – racing screen font of Asphalt 8
- Orbitron Zero – main font of Asphalt 7
- Play – main font of Asphalt Streetstorm
- Rajdhani – main font of Asphalt 9
External links[]
- Brandon Schoepf on dafont.com