A gradient trail of telemetry leading to a bright terminus. The trail fades into the dot, never away from it — the moment scattered signal lands in one place. This page is how the mark is built, and how to use it without breaking it.
The mark is two elements and one rule. A swept arc and a terminus dot, bound by a gradient that only ever runs one way. Nothing decorative, nothing accidental.
The Signal Sweep is the only sanctioned gradient in the system: #FF7A18 at 0% opacity in the bottom-left, to solid signal-500 in the top-right. It is non-negotiable.
Transparent tail in the bottom-left, opaque dot in the top-right. Trail feeds the terminus.
The fade must never run toward the dot. A bright tail and a faint terminus inverts the whole idea.
One hue only. No blue-to-orange, no rainbow trail. Signal orange owns the mark.
Keep clear space equal to X — the diameter of the terminus dot — on every side of the mark and lockup. No type, no rule, no other element enters that zone.
Each variant exists for a surface. Use the gradient primary wherever gradients render; drop to mono stipple for one-color, tiny, or print. The mark must always read with clear prominence against its background.
Not an exhaustive list — but these are the ones that break the mark. When in doubt, use a supplied vector file unaltered.
The terminus floats away from the trail. They are one mark — never pull them apart.
Green, blue, anything off-brand. Signal orange and the two mono fallbacks are the only fills.
The sweep always rises left-to-right. Rotating loses the orbit it's named for.
Scale uniformly. Non-proportional stretching distorts the arc and the dot.
No busy patterns or photos behind the mark. The transparent tail needs a calm field.
No drop shadows, glows, bevels or outlines. The gradient is the only depth the mark needs.
The horizontal lockup pairs the mark with the wordmark set in Instrument Serif italic, with the leading O in signal-500 — the only letter that ever takes the accent. The wordmark is always sentence-case "Orbita", never all-caps, never inline in a sentence.
If you're putting the Orbita mark on a deck, a co-branded page, or hardware, grab the vector files and follow the gradient rule. When in doubt, ask — we'd rather send you the right file than fix the wrong one.
