About Hyper Light Drifter
Hyper Light Drifter is Heart Machine's 2016 vision of a beautiful, dying world: flat blocks of dusk-purple and deep teal, neon-red foliage, magenta skies. Bright colour leaps off dark ground and never touches paper-white. The Drifter's red cloak anchors a split-complementary scheme — crimson focal, cool-blue tonic — against a perpetual night.
- Origin
- Los Angeles, North America
- Era
- 2010–now (released 2016)
- Key figures
- Alex Preston · Heart Machine
- Movements
- High-saturation pixel-art · Flat-colour-plus-gradient illustration · Melancholic post-apocalyptic sci-fi
Hyper Light Drifter design spec
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Background
Surface
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Typography
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Chakra PetchBody
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