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. 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. Orbitron Zero is the main and only font of Asphalt 7: Heat.

Players may recognize the characteristic Two Zeros numbers 1, 4 and 7 and the Orbitron letters r, K and Q from Asphalt 7 screens. The following table shows the main differences between the two merged fonts. 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.Īs a consequence, Orbitron Zero cannot be installed alongside the original Orbitron as both Orbitron Zero font weights try to register as Orbitron Black. Orbitron Zero is not published and can only be extracted from the game folders of Asphalt 7. 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. 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. Of course Orbitron could also be used on the posters for the movies portraying this inevitable future.” Two Zeros 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. 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. “Orbitron was designed so that graphic designers in the future will have some alternative to typefaces like Eurostile or Bank Gothic. In a humorous comment, its designer McInerney wrote: It features four weights (light, medium, bold, and black) and many stylistic alternatives. Orbitron is a geometric sans-serif typeface published in 2009 and intended for display purposes.

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