Black Hole Week Assets

  • Released Monday, February 28, 2022

This page will introduce you to the world, characters, colors, and fonts of Black Hole Week. NASA celebrated Black Hole Week in 2019, 2021 and May, 2022.

The world of Black Hole Week is bold, colorful, and a bit retro. It's also populated by a fun bunch of characters, including a little blue explorer (called the "Traveler") and their black hole friends.

Below, you'll find tons of helpful images, GIFs, and other materials to get you going if you want to join in!

If you are having trouble downloading the ZIP or AI files, please contact Barb Mattson: barb.mattson@nasa.gov

The Black HoleHonestly, all this black hole wants is to be left alone. But, if that's not possible, it at least hopes that any visitors can keep a safe distance. This character is aloof and a bit too cool for the rest of us, but it's ultimately friendly and willing to help people learn more about black holes.Download a .zip file of all black hole stills HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

The Black Hole

Honestly, all this black hole wants is to be left alone. But, if that's not possible, it at least hopes that any visitors can keep a safe distance. This character is aloof and a bit too cool for the rest of us, but it's ultimately friendly and willing to help people learn more about black holes.

Download a .zip file of all black hole stills HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Other Black Hole FriendsAn unlikely pair, the baby (stellar-mass) and supermassive black holes enjoy just doing what they do best. For the supermassive black hole, it's being, erm, super massive. The baby loves crying.Download a .zip file of all other black hole friends stills HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Other Black Hole Friends

An unlikely pair, the baby (stellar-mass) and supermassive black holes enjoy just doing what they do best. For the supermassive black hole, it's being, erm, super massive. The baby loves crying.

Download a .zip file of all other black hole friends stills HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Black Hole Week Text TreatmentWhile we could just write out "Black Hole Week," we decided it would be more fun to make the "o" a black hole. Fun fact: If you squished the mass of Mars into a sphere the size of that "o," it would turn into a black hole!Download a .zip file of all text treatment stills HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Black Hole Week Text Treatment

While we could just write out "Black Hole Week," we decided it would be more fun to make the "o" a black hole. Fun fact: If you squished the mass of Mars into a sphere the size of that "o," it would turn into a black hole!

Download a .zip file of all text treatment stills HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Color PaletteThe colors we use are meant to be friendly, accessible, and bright — even though most of our adventures take place in outer space! Our primary colors are blues, purples, and oranges, with a few wild card accent colors thrown in for good measure. Finally, since our black holes are, well, black, we usually depict outer space as a dark or medium purple.Blues (#2c7189, #269cdd, #3eb1ff, #57cdf7, #94d9f7)Purples (#2b2143, #6868af, #a3a3e5)Oranges (#ff900b, #dbac61, #f9d793)Neutrals (#000, #afafaf, #fff)Accents (#9aea83, #f27a66, #41e6da)

Color Palette

The colors we use are meant to be friendly, accessible, and bright — even though most of our adventures take place in outer space! Our primary colors are blues, purples, and oranges, with a few wild card accent colors thrown in for good measure. Finally, since our black holes are, well, black, we usually depict outer space as a dark or medium purple.

Blues (#2c7189, #269cdd, #3eb1ff, #57cdf7, #94d9f7)

Purples (#2b2143, #6868af, #a3a3e5)

Oranges (#ff900b, #dbac61, #f9d793)

Neutrals (#000, #afafaf, #fff)

Accents (#9aea83, #f27a66, #41e6da)

FontsTo evoke a bold, retro feel, our primary font is Futura PT Bold. Also, we'll often write in all caps or small caps for headings and large labels.For smaller labels, footnotes, and other special cases that call for something lighter or more organic, Coniferous is our alternate font.

Fonts

To evoke a bold, retro feel, our primary font is Futura PT Bold. Also, we'll often write in all caps or small caps for headings and large labels.

For smaller labels, footnotes, and other special cases that call for something lighter or more organic, Coniferous is our alternate font.

IIllustrator FilesDownload Rocket Launch Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")Download the Traveler Bedroom Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")Download the Baby & Supermassive Black Holes Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")Download the Other Things Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")Download the Traveler & Black Hole Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

IIllustrator Files

Download Rocket Launch Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Download the Traveler Bedroom Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Download the Baby & Supermassive Black Holes Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Download the Other Things Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")

Download the Traveler & Black Hole Adobe Illustrator file HERE (Right click and select "save linked file as")



Credits

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Release date

This page was originally published on Monday, February 28, 2022.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 11:44 AM EDT.


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