| Orbitron Zero | |
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| abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789.:,;(*!?'/\")£$€%^&-+@ | |
| The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog | |
| Info | |
| Author | Orbitron: Matt McInerney Zero Twos: Raymond Larabie Orbitron Zero: Gameloft |
| License | Orbitron: SIL Open Font License (OFL) Zero Twos: Free Desktop license Orbitron Zero: OFL analogously |
| Download | Orbitron: Google Fonts Two Zeros: dafontfree.net Orbitron Zero: Internal game files only |
| Asphalt appearances | |
| Games | Asphalt 7: Heat |
| Usage | Main font |
| Examples | SPEED DEMON
Start Nitro 20 times
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Dollars 47,250
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Be the first to cross the finish line! | |
Orbitron Zero is a Gameloft modification of the Orbitron font by Matt McInerney where the numeric characters have been replaced with the numbers of the Two Zeros font by Raymond Larabie.
It is a wide squared sans-serif typeface that only uses two weights of the original Orbitron font: bold (700) for normal text and black (900) for headings.
Origins[]
Orbitron[]
Orbitron is a geometric sans-serif typeface published in 2009[1] and intended for display purposes. It features four weights (light, medium, bold, and black) and many stylistic alternatives. In a humorous comment, its designer McInerney wrote:
- “Orbitron was designed so that graphic designers in the future will have some alternative to typefaces like Eurostile or Bank Gothic. If you’ve ever seen a futuristic sci-fi movie, you have may noticed that all other fonts have been lost or destroyed in the apocalypse that led humans to flee earth. Only those very few geometric typefaces have survived to be used on spaceship exteriors, space station signage, monopolistic corporate branding, uniforms featuring aerodynamic shoulder pads, etc. Of course Orbitron could also be used on the posters for the movies portraying this inevitable future.” [2]
Two Zeros[]
Two Zeros was published in 1999 and is the predecessor of Zeroes Two, a member of the Zeroes font family by Raymond Larabie which is described as “a set of fashion-inspired modular geometric display fonts” and was inspired by the unicase Liz Claiborne fashion designer logo.[3] It is similar to Orbitron but features some unique differences, mainly that upper and lower case characters have the same height and that the i has no dot.
Orbitron Zero[]
Orbitron Zero is not published and can only be extracted from the game folders of Asphalt 7. The internal file signature of orbitron-zero-bold.ttf and orbitron-zero-black.ttf is an exact copy of the signature of the original orbitron-black.otf, which implies that Orbitron Black has served as a template where the numeric characters of Two Zeros have been pasted without modifying the metadata.
As a consequence, Orbitron Zero cannot be installed alongside the original Orbitron as both Orbitron Zero font weights try to register as Orbitron Black.
The following table shows the main differences between the two merged fonts. Players may recognize the characteristic Two Zeros numbers 1, 4 and 7 and the Orbitron letters r, K and Q from Asphalt 7 screens.
| Font | Numbers | Lower case | Upper case |
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Usage[]
Orbitron Zero is the main and only font of Asphalt 7: Heat. It is the last typeface in the tradition of wide futuristic fonts that were typical for a whole era of arcade games, including all previous Asphalt releases. Due tue restrictions imposed by low graphic resolutions, characters in early games were built of only a few pixels which left little room for typeface design. This resulted in simple, mostly squared and slightly chunky characters, a style that was also kept when better graphics allowed the use of more elaborated typefaces.
Accidental Presidency, the font of Asphalt 7's successor Asphalt 8: Airborne, eventually broke this tradition: Being condensed and narrow, it is the complete opposite of all previous Asphalt fonts and takes advantage of the high screen resolutions in modern video games.
Asphalt Wiki[]
Orbitron Zero can also be used on Asphalt Wiki.
- CSS
- Class:
font-a7ororbitron-zero - Example:
<span class="font-a7">Example</span>→ Example
- Template
- Template: {{Font}}
- Example:
{{font|a7|Example}}→ Example
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[]
- Orbitron on The League of Moveable Type
- Orbitron on GitHub
- Zeroes – the successor of Zero Twos on Typodermic Fonts