Accidental Presidency

Accidental Presidency 	Accidental Presidency
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Info 	Info
 	
Author 	Brandon Schoepf
License 	Free
Download 	dafont.com
Asphalt appearances 	Asphalt appearances
Games 	Asphalt InjectionAsphalt 8: AirborneAsphalt Overdrive
Usage 	Latin main font
Examples 	Aston Martin Vantage 2018RANK / 1653
 	
 	RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
 	
Accidental Presidency is a condensed semi-bold font used as the main font of Asphalt Injection, Asphalt 8: Airborne and Asphalt Overdrive. It comes in one font weight only and features a characteristic ampersand which may be familiar to many players from the well-known term “Research & Development”:
    
== Usage ==
Accidental Presidency is used for every Asphalt 8 in-game text except for the racing screens where displays and notifications are rendered in Monkirta Pursuit NC.
It marks a departure from the wide squared futuristic fonts of previous Asphalt games, for example Hemi Head Bold Italic in Asphalt 6: Adrenaline or Orbitron Zero in Asphalt 7: Heat which were typical for arcade games of their time.
=== Missing characters ===
Accidental Presidency does not have an em dash (—) or en dash (–). This is the reason why the and of Asphalt 8 have a double hyphen in their name which is often used when dashes are not available. The two boxes were added later to the game than the other 1-Part-Boxes which all have only one hyphen in their name. This inconsistency may be due to different authors responsible for the naming. Curiously, the English language version is the only one to show this glitch:
Box	English 	German 	French 	Russian
 	1 Part B Box	1 Teil B-Box	1 pièce Boîte B	Набор B 1 деталь
 	1 Part D Box	1 Teil D-Box	1 pièce Boîte D	1 деталь набор D
The Russian version has consistent hyphens, but the parts of the name have been swapped for the more recent boxes, perhaps also due to different translators. Some time-limited boxes like the Box also have double hyphens. Besides, the phenomenon reappears in Asphalt Overdrive, for example in mission descriptions like "Final Stunt Run -- Prove your jump stunt skills".
=== Font size ===
As the font is very condensed, it is often difficult to read, especially when texts in other language versions are automatically rendered smaller to fit in the intended space. Furthermore, Accidental Presidency does not have a Cyrillic character subset, so the developers chose Cuprum Bold, a slightly less condensed font, which is by default rendered even smaller than the Latin font.
The name of the box, for example, is translated as follows (in standard font):
*Limited-Edition Mid-Tech (English)
*Limited Edition Mittel-Technik (German)
*Technologie intermédiaire en édition limitée (French)
*Лимитированное издание: Средний технабор (Russian)
=== Spacing and shadow ===
As not only the characters themselves are condensed, but also the spacing between them is extremely narrow, the game almost always adds a shadow to increase contrast and readability. The only exceptions are buttons and menu bars with a naturally high contrast, like dark blue letters on white background.
== Asphalt Wiki ==
Accidental Presidency can also be used on Asphalt Wiki. As it is rendered smaller than standard text, it is set to a font size of by default so that it has roughly the same size as standard text. Rendering text bigger than normal requires font sizes larger than . 
; CSS
: Class: font-a8, font-ao or accidental-presidency
: Example: Example → Example
; Template
: Template: 
: Example: {{font|a8|Example}} → 
To add a shadow to text on non-white background, the shadow-a8 class can be added. Example:
{| class="background-a8"
| class="font-a8" | Low contrast, no shadow
|-
| class="font-a8 shadow-a8" | Higher contrast, shadow
|}
gives:
Low contrast, no shadow
Higher contrast, shadow
== See also ==
== External links ==
* Brandon Schoepf on dafont.com
Category:Asphalt fonts
Category:Fonts in Asphalt Injection
Category:Fonts in Asphalt 8: Airborne
Category:Fonts in Asphalt Overdrive