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Open licence · Sans serif

Orbitron

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Orbitron webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Orbitron.

Orbitronthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

tall x-heightwideflat contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Orbitron, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Orbitron, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Poppins webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Poppins.

Poppinsslightly narrower · slightly smaller x-height

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Geomini webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Geomini.

Geominislightly narrower · slightly narrower bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Rubik Burned webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rubik Burned.

Rubik Burnedslightly stronger serifs · slightly narrower bowls · slightly smaller x-height

These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

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Orbitron as a free alternative to

Orbitron is suggested on 4 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

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