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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 video game

Contributed by Alex Nguyen on Dec 21st, 2024. Artwork published in
October 2024
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 video game 1
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From Wikipedia:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a 2024 first-person shooter video game co-developed by Treyarch and Raven Software and published by Activision. It is the twenty-first installment of the Call of Duty series […] Black Ops 6’s single-player story follows rogue CIA operatives Troy Marshall and Frank Woods as they assemble a team of agents to hunt down Pantheon, a paramilitary group with covert ties to the agency.

Black Ops 6 continues the age-old tradition in military shooters: it must use squared sans-serifs no matter what. And this game more than kept its end of the bargain. Kairos Sans Condensed is featured throughout the game’s UI, mainly on big headings and small, less important text. TT Lakes Neue and its Condensed variant are mainly used on long body text, where Kairos Sans could be a bit too angular for readability.

Subtitles are set in Helvetica Monospaced, evoking the feeling of reading a transcript – very fitting for the “off the books” nature of the Black Ops games. Helvetica itself is also used, but is reserved for numbered elements. The venerable Noto Sans returns, used on the scoreboard and player names for full language converage. Stratum 2 makes a surprise appearance, but only in the campaign’s pre-rendered cutscenes.

Game logo
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Game logo

Main menu
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Main menu

Mission select screen on the campaign mode
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Mission select screen on the campaign mode

A cutscene that happens early in the game. Stratum 2 is seen here.
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A cutscene that happens early in the game. Stratum 2 is seen here.

Multiplayer lobby
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Multiplayer lobby

Modfiying a weapon. Helvetica Monospaced is used on gun statistics.
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Modfiying a weapon. Helvetica Monospaced is used on gun statistics.

Every now and then, the game gives you multiple dialogue choices. The last line of dialogue is set in the regular width of TT Lakes Neue, while the buttons use the Condensed width.
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Every now and then, the game gives you multiple dialogue choices. The last line of dialogue is set in the regular width of TT Lakes Neue, while the buttons use the Condensed width.

Admiring a beautiful shotgun. The campaign uses a different HUD from the online modes. Button prompts (bottom right) appear to be set in Noto Sans, while the rest is in Kairos Sans.
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Admiring a beautiful shotgun. The campaign uses a different HUD from the online modes. Button prompts (bottom right) appear to be set in Noto Sans, while the rest is in Kairos Sans.

The start of a Team Deathmatch mode. Helvetica can be spotted on the bottom right, used for the ammo counter. The monospaced version also appears here in subtitle form.
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The start of a Team Deathmatch mode. Helvetica can be spotted on the bottom right, used for the ammo counter. The monospaced version also appears here in subtitle form.

Scoreboard
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Scoreboard

Tasting sweet victory in the form of a very large Kairos Sans
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Tasting sweet victory in the form of a very large Kairos Sans

Barely surviving in Zombies mode. The HUD appears virtually the same as other online modes. Note that Helvetica is used on the score numbers, while Noto Sans on the described kills.
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Barely surviving in Zombies mode. The HUD appears virtually the same as other online modes. Note that Helvetica is used on the score numbers, while Noto Sans on the described kills.

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  • Kairos Sans
  • TT Lakes Neue
  • Helvetica Monospaced
  • Helvetica
  • Noto Sans
  • Stratum 2

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