Orbitron
Designed by Matt McInerney. 1 style · sans
Regular · 400
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About Orbitron
Orbitron is a geometric sans built out of squared-off, wide letterforms with flat curves and hard corners — the visual shorthand for technology and science fiction. Matt McInerney designed it explicitly for display use in futuristic contexts.
It does that job convincingly: game titles, esports branding, sci-fi film credits, technology event posters, dashboard headers that want to feel like instrumentation. The wide proportions mean short words fill a lot of horizontal space, which suits a title card and fights a narrow column.
It is a single-purpose face. Outside the tech-and-space register it reads as costume, and it has no business in body text at any size.
Licence
Orbitron is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits use in personal and commercial work. Read the licence before redistributing the files or selling them on.
Installing it
- Windows.
- Right-click the downloaded file and choose Install, or drop it into Settings → Personalisation → Fonts.
- macOS.
- Double-click the file and press Install Font in Font Book.
- On the web.
- Self-host the WOFF2 and declare it with an
@font-facerule rather than linking to this page.
