The Argo's visual identity reflects its origins: a decommissioned, retro-fitted SolGov freighter turned safe house and community hub. We reject sterile, corporate tech-blues and harsh whites, embracing warm, lived-in tones, Soviet/Constructivist geometry, and the deep, rusted atmosphere of the outer rim.
These colors and fonts are used across our services to provide a unified design language, with a focus on comfort for long-form reading and roleplay.
Primary Hull Palette
Typography Palette
System & Status Indicators
For our dashboards (like Instatus) and matrix user-states, we use muted, industrial tones rather than standard traffic-light colors.
Typography
Our type system is built from various typefaces, with the Constructivist and Soviet space program influences carrying through, whilst still prioritizing readability.
We want to make a statement, that people can still read.
A custom variant of Russo One with extended Cyrillic support. Used exclusively for page titles and the ship's name. Its geometric, blocky letterforms evoke Soviet-era propaganda signage and Constructivist poster design, with our variant softening some of the harsher aspects to represent the step away from Cygni groups that the Argo has taken recently.
Named after Sergei Korolev, chief architect of the Soviet space program. A clean, condensed sans-serif used for all section headings (H2, H3). Uppercase presentation with tracked-out letter-spacing, for a utilitarian, industrial feel throughout navigation and documentation. Korolev does not include Cyrillic glyphs; Oswald is loaded as a fallback, providing a similar condensed geometric sans-serif with full Cyrillic coverage that closely matches Korolev's industrial character.
Welcome to The Argo. We are an independent, democratic roleplaying community born from the SS13/14 community. In-universe, we are a decommissioned SolGov freighter turned civilian habitat and safe house. We reside in the Tau Ceti star system—a bustling, populated area of space where many of our residents commute to work aboard various space stations.
Добро пожаловать на Арго. Мы — независимое, демократическое ролевое сообщество, зародившееся в комьюнити SS13/14. По лору, мы — списанный грузовой корабль SolGov, переоборудованный в жилой комплекс и убежище.
A grotesk sans-serif from the same geometric lineage as the rest of our type stack. The light weight provides a thin, airy feel to pair against our dark backgrounds. Barlow does not include Cyrillic glyphs; Inter is loaded as a fallback, providing a neutral grotesk with comprehensive Cyrillic coverage and matching weight granularity.
Part of GitHub Next's Monaspace superfamily. Krypton's mechanical, highly geometric letterforms is intended to feel like reading from a ship's diagnostic terminal. It features Texture Healing which dynamically adjusts glyph widths to even out monospace density, and supports code ligature sets covering operators across a wide range of programming languages.
Iconography
Custom SVG iconography designed for the Stargo media uplink player. These signal-strength indicators use the status palette defined above and are rendered inline at any resolution.
