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About Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn renders a world where verdant wilderness has reclaimed the ruins of a fallen technological civilization, all bathed in a perpetual golden-hour amber dusk. Earthen tribes in leather and bone move through overgrowth, while glowing holographic cyan interfaces flicker over warm naturalistic terrain.

This design system captures that tension: warm dusk-earth grounds and amber light against lush green reclamation, with faceted holographic UI providing cool counterpoint. Nature and technology coexist — never cold, never sterile, always lit by setting sun.

Learn more about the Horizon Zero Dawn style

Origin
North America (US Rocky Mountains, in-fiction); developed in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Era
2017 (action-RPG release); far-future post-apocalypse setting
Key figures
Guerrilla Games · Aloy · Nora tribe · Carja sun-kingdom
Movements
post-apocalyptic eco-sci-fi · holographic interface design · machines-vs-nature art direction

Horizon Zero Dawn design spec

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Typography

Exo 2Headings
BarlowBody
RajdhaniMono
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