Designer: Kimmy
KirkwoodRefinery is the latest font style in the Evanston Collection of square typefaces. With a comparable capital structure to Tavern and Alehouse, Refinery consists of both lowercase and little caps, making it a perfect typeface for paragraph text settings. It also is available in a wide variety of weights and widths, with 85 font files in total.
DESIGN Refinery has it's roots in early 20th century signage and saloon typography, however has actually been modernized - even future-ized - to fit the 21st century digital landscape. The style was aimed at offering a type family that could operate in many modern-day design fields, from sports, tech and military to gaming, HUD, virtual reality and augmented reality.
ENGINEERING Basically. Refinery is a simple mono-linear square style has been expertly fine-tuned into an easy-reading sans serif typeface. It was created to be utilized in both display and text settings. From hairline to black in ultra-narrow or extended, the broad array of weight and width alternatives makes it simple to find the ideal font style for each text need.
SPECS Refinery not just includes 85 font files, but every one consist of a broad array of Opentype Extras that enable even more customization.
- Stylistic Alternatives: Letters A W Y have a styling variation that rounds the pointed apex into a square curve. The S and 2 variation corrects the alignment of the spinal column, making all curves in the alphabet checked out as 90ยบ angles.
- Little Capitals: A reduced version of the capitals for alternate header settings.
- Titling Alternatives: In this typeface, this function switches on lifted little caps. Take the little capitals, raise them to level with capitals and highlight at the standard. When multiple lowercase or small capital letters are typed in a row, the underlines link, developing special ligatures.
- Figures: There are various figure designs for various text needs. Alternatives consist of, proportional lining, tabular lining (for math), old style and little capitals.
- Discretionary Ligatures: A little funk to this otherwise serious typeface. Letters with a long standard or cap height stem - F, L, T - get elongated to hug a small capital vowel. Other ligatures include Co. and No.
- Catchwords: These are common words that bring focus to a design. In English these words consist of 'and' 'as' 'by' 'in' 'of' 'the' 'to' 'when', amongst others. Refinery also includes multilingual catchwords of 'el' 'la' 'oder' 'go' 'para' 'pour' 'und' 'y', amongst others. For the complete list, please have a look at the specimen images.
EXTRAS To round the typeface off, a set of over 150 ornaments, icons, arrows, patterns and line breaks is included to provide complimentary graphics. These can be found in the Ornaments labelled font, it is recommended to use the Glyphs panel to choose which text glyph is needed.
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