| Cuprum Bold | |
|---|---|
| abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ 0123456789.:,;(*!?'/\")£$€%^&-+@ | |
| The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Съешь же ещё этих мягких французских булок да выпей чаю | |
| Info | |
| Author | Jovanny Lemonad |
| License | SIL Open Font License (OFL) |
| Download | Google Fonts |
| Asphalt appearances | |
| Games | Asphalt 8: Airborne Asphalt Overdrive |
| Usage | Cyrillic main font |
| Examples | АВАРИЯ |
| Aston Martin Vantage 2018 RANK 1605 / 1653 РАНГ 1605 / 1653 | |
| Beat a Race Time of 01:19:000 Побейте время гонки 01:19:000 | |
| RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ & РАЗРАБОТКА | |
The Russian equivalent of "Waiting for other players" ("Ожидание игроков") written in Cuprum Bold, alongside the track name in (Latin) Monkirta Pursuit. Track names are rendered as 3D objects, not as text; this is the reason why they are never translated.
Cuprum Bold is a member of the Cuprum font family by Jovanny Lemonad (Russian: Джованни Лемонад). It is a narrow sans serif and replaces Accidental Presidency as the main font for the Russian languange version of Asphalt 8: Airborne and Asphalt Overdrive.
Contrary to Accidental Presidency, Cuprum offers more varieties. It comes as regular, regular italic, bold and bold italic and has extended Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese character subsets. It also has a clearer letter spacing than Accidental Presidency, and the letters themselves are a bit wider.
Usage
In Asphalt 8, only the bold font weight of Cuprum is used as it comes close to the semi-bold Accidental Presidency. Cuprum also replaces Monkirta Pursuit NC, the secondary font for on-screen displays during races, because Monkirta Pursuit has no Cyrillic characters either. This makes Cuprum Bold the only font used in the Russian game version.
Font size
As Russian does not have narrow "single-stroke" letters like the Latin i (и), l (л), f (ф), r (р), t (т) or j (й), Russian words are automatically longer, even if it is a letter-by-letter translation like "нитро" for "nitro". Therefore the game renders all Cyrillic text smaller by default which makes it often difficult to read, especially when translations of English terms require more words in Russian so that the text size is even more decreased to fit in buttons and text fields.
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
Cuprum already has a well-defined letter spacing. But as the longer Russian translations often require extremely small font sizes, and to stay consistent with the general design, the game almost always adds a shadow to increase contrast and readability like for the Latin font. The only exceptions are buttons and menu bars with a naturally high contrast, like dark blue letters on white background.
Asphalt Wiki
Cuprum Bold can also be used on Asphalt Wiki.
- CSS
- Class:
font-a8-cyrillic,font-ao-cyrillicorcuprum - Example:
<span class="font-a8-cyrillic">Example</span>→ Example
- Template
- Template: {{Font}}
- Example:
{{font|a8-cyrillic|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-cyrillic" | Low contrast, no shadow
|-
| class="font-a8-cyrillic 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
- Free Fonts Project – the website of Jovanny Lemonad