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Turbine is a sans serif typeface with superelliptic curves and open apertures. Its distinct character makes it a great choice for corporate design and branding projects. Low stroke contrast and angular curves work perfect on screen and make Turbine very suitable for webdesign and app design.
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The family has 7 weights, ranging from Thin to Extrabold plus corresponding italics. Each cut includes 489 glyphs supporting all western-, eastern- and central-european languages with four sets of figures and currency symbols.
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The first idea for the design of Turbine was to use a multiple master axis for a unusual purpose. Normally there is a weight axis, or a width axis – even optical sizes are usual. So I experimented with a serif axis or a contrast axis. But finally I worked with an axis for the roundness of the curves.
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After several phases of testing I realised that the nearly circular formes look boring and nearly rectangular formes are too quirky. I found out that there is only one curve that works better than all the others and I decided that the roundness axis is not a concept worth a variable font but was a very helpful design tool
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When I realized, that the character of the typeface is defined by the distinct curves, I decided to eliminate a couple of eccentric details to make it more useful for a broader audience. For example I removed the vertically cut diagonals and just kept the tapering stem terminals as a special feature.
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Licenses and free trial fonts are available via: www.fontwerk.com
For more testing options please visit the microsite
Thanks for your appreciation. Comments are very welcome.