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/ |
@roma Start it! And then, once the urge has faded, go back to what you were doing before with fresh eyes.
Trying out a whole bunch of different styles is a great way to improve your drawing skills, and leaving a project alone for a bit is almost always a good thing — the distance helps you figure out which aspects of a design are worth keeping, and which were actually just trends/mistakes/etc.
@TiroTypeworks That makes sense, thanks!
I’m aiming to use @koeberlin’s Latin S character set as a baseline — hence looking into the n-like default — although my specific “must 100% support these languages” list doesn’t include either form. The N-like variant will stay in the glyph set either way.
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.
@molly0xfff Chrome/Firefox/Safari all treat ’ and ' as interchangeable for me. (There’s maybe also an argument that the “if MOS doesn't need a rule [...], then it needs to not have a rule” logic applies.)
But ultimately, as someone with zero Wikipedia edits to my name, I don’t think I should be the one to stir the pot. For what I actually need, client-side substitution (error-prone as it is) will be fine.
Thomas Phinney