Mass–Driver is an independent type foundry based in The Hague, Netherlands.
(Posts by Rutherford Craze, designer.)
| Foundry | https://mass-driver.com |
| Future Fonts | https://www.futurefonts.xyz/mass-driver/ |
Pet peeve: type foundries (and users) who use “weights” when they mean “styles.” Look, “weight” already has a meaning in typography, _and there is no obvious English word we can substitute for that_. If your font family has 9 weights from Thin to Black, and then matching italics, then the typeface has 9 weights and 18 styles. Not 18 weights. And if it comes in two widths, that does *not* give it 36 weights. Still 9.
Looking especially at you, MyFonts.
I’m still making progress on IO’s next update, which includes a significant number of drawing improvements across the glyph set.
To be released when it’s ready — I’m hoping these will be the last drawing changes to the basic character set, so I’m taking my time to get them right.
New Type Day!
Parabolica is a hard working neo-grotesk family with two optical sizes.
Based on utilitarian application-specific typefaces of the past, Parabolica is designed to work anywhere.
Check it out: https://jtdtype.com/typeface/Parabolica
Today, @futurefonts is 5 years old. Amazing.
Epic work by Lizy & Trav. They took a relatively risky idea for the type world and made it work.
I’d even venture to say Future Fonts has normalised the concept of beta/unfinished fonts, and grown a new market segment.
Here’s to the next 5 years!
the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)
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