Tuesday Type is a fortnightly feature showcasing a chosen font. Today’s type is Orbitron by The League of Movable Type.
Orbitron is a geometric sans-serif typeface intended for display purposes. It features four weights (light, medium, bold, and black), stylistic alternatives, small caps, and a ton of alternate glyphs. 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 may have 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. It was initially published by the League of Movable Type.
The League of Movable Type is the first free & open-source type foundry, the League is a hand-selected group of typographers interested in propelling the movement into the professional playing field. By doing so, they hope to do more than offer a free set of high-quality fonts–they hope to revolutionise web typography altogether.
Orbitron is available from Google Fonts.
If you’re impressed with the graphic used in this week’s Tuesday Type, it is available to exclusively licence from Artgrab.