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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
6 weights · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Orbitron
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
High
0.806
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.160
contrast
Low
0.010
letter width
Expanded
1.209
Web embed
Use Orbitron on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Orbitron:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* Orbitron */
body {
font-family: 'Orbitron', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Orbitron.
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Details
- Family
- Orbitron
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Matt McInerney
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 15, 2010
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Orbitron font
Orbitron is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matt McInerney, first released to Google Fonts on December 2010. It ships with 6 weights · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a high x-height at 81% of the cap height, expanded letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Orbitron against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Orbitron is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.