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. It features four weights (light, medium, bold, and black), stylistic alternatives, small caps, and a ton of alternate glyphs. Excerpt from A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay.Orbitron is a geometric sans-serif typeface intended for display purposes. The roots were revolving, for each small plant in the whole patch, like the spokes of a rimless wheel. When it came near enough he perceived that it was not grass there were no blades, but only purple roots. What looked like a small patch of purple grass, above five feet square, was moving across the sand in their direction.
Tim Brown’s Modular Scale site raised awareness about type scales, helped to improve typography on the web, and it was the inspiration for this project. You can read more about these units from an article I wrote on the subject, Confused About REM and EM? Additional Resources The only difference between the two is that em is proportionate to its nearest parent that has a font-size, whereas rem is always relative to the font-size. The em value is the same as the rem value displayed above. Large scales (1.333 or greater) may be challenging to implement effectively, but could work well for portfolios, agencies, some marketing sites, or avant-garde works. A medium scale is versatile and works well for a wide variety of desktop sites, including blogs and marketing sites. Medium scales (1.15–1.333) have a clear hierarchy, and help to organize sections with subheadings.
Small scales (less than 1.2) are subtle and good for both mobile and desktop apps, or the mobile version of a responsive site.
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