About Elite Dangerous (Cobra HUD)
Elite Dangerous renders the cockpit of a star-ship as a single amber instrument glowing against the dark glass of space. The hard-confirmed default "star" orange HUD projects angular holographic panels, bracket frames, and a radar disc over a near-black canopy.
This design system distills that cockpit language: monospaced star-chart numerics, wireframe panels in star-orange, and a cool blue reserved strictly for subsystem and secondary tabs — never a co-equal primary.
- Origin
- Western Europe — Frontier Developments, Cambridge (UK)
- Era
- Contemporary future-fiction (2014 onward); the Elite lineage dating to 1984
- Key figures
- David Braben · Ian Bell · Frontier UI / HUD design teams
- Movements
- British space-sim heritage · Elite & Frontier: Elite II lineage · Holographic cockpit HUD design
Elite Dangerous (Cobra HUD) design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Saira Semi CondensedHeadings
OxaniumBody
Roboto MonoMono
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