Orbitron
Orbitron is what a designer reaches for when something has to look like the future, and it has been that font for long enough to have its own clichés. The forms are strictly geometric and squared off, the counters are rectangles, and the whole thing is built on a grid that shows. Four weights on a variable axis, which is unusual in this genre and is why it survives where most sci-fi faces are a single display cut.
Alphabets
- Latin
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Matt McInerney
- Foundry
- The League of Moveable Type
- Released
- 2009
- Category
- Display
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Headlines, Titles, Game UI, Technical interfaces
- Weights
- 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 269
- Languages
- Latin
- Download size
- 22 KB
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Orbitron';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/orbitron.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Orbitron', sans-serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Orbitron free for commercial use?
- Yes. Orbitron is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Orbitron in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Orbitron belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Matt McInerney. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Orbitron?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Orbitron is a variable font: the single file carries all 6 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Orbitron that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 6 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Orbitron support Turkish?
- No. Orbitron covers Latin, but not the extra characters Turkish needs — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ and ş. Turkish text set in it would come out with missing or wrong letters.
- Does Orbitron support Latin?
- Yes. Orbitron covers Latin, across 269 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.