The Orbit visual system
Brand.
Deep space, mission control, local-first. The system behind orbit.photo: how the marks, color, type, and motion fit together.
Logo & mark
orbit-mark-light.svg
Orbit
Primary lockup · mark + wordmark
The orbital mark scales down clean. App icon at right.
Color
Space Black · Studio Orange · Signal GreenTypography
Switzer · Geist · Geist MonoOrbit turns your whole archive into one searchable memory you can ask by moment, vendor, person, or color. Read on-device, never uploaded.
Components
Live classes from the siteButtons · solid (white) + ghost
Status dot (Signal Green telemetry) + mono label
Crop marks · lab/spec framing on figures
Orbital ring backdrop · the hero motif
Telemetry HUD · the mission-control device
Backdrop
You're looking at itEvery surface sits on deep space: a dense procedural starfield with a soft vignette, a faint orange signal glow from the top edge, and a very slight parallax drift as you scroll. The background you see behind this page is the system itself.
Motion
Mirrored from the Orbit app- Ease out
- cubic-bezier(.32, .72, 0, 1)
- Ease pop
- cubic-bezier(.2, .8, .2, 1)
- Duration
- 240ms base · 80 / 160 / 380 / 600 steps
- Entrances
- rise + slight scale (orbitSettle), never a plain fade
- Accent words
- glyph-decode out of noise, like a search landing
Voice
Plain, confident, photographer-firstFree · macOS · your library never leaves your Mac. We speak to working photographers, not to "users." No hype, no jargon, no em-dashes.