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Lórien is my most ambitious project to date, with support for over 420 Latin-script languages (including Vietnamese for the first time — the typeface covers @koeberlin’s Latin M character set, a step...
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I need you to know that “Caslon in the streets, Fleischmann in the sheets” was so nearly the tagline for this typeface
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MD Lórien took two years and the work of three designers to complete — it’s my attempt to adapt the feel of 17th century Baroque typefaces, and the sparkle of 18th century ones, into a practical design...
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Nothing but respect for my local Lebanese man’ouche place, the owner of which just told a customer he couldn’t swap the tahini for garlic sauce until he’d at least *tried* the traditional way
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This morning I told myself, “As a little treat once I finish the quarterly taxes, I can watch one episode of Gardeners’ World.”27 going on 50, apparently.
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cool idea: a design tool like Affinity or Figma or Penpot, except it just uses HarfBuzz instead of trying to make a custom text engine and then never finishing it
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Some new letters I’ve been drawing recently.I have no idea if this’ll go anywhere, but I find creating letterforms under rigid constraints to be a nice creative exercise.
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This weekend it’ll be one year since we started providing full, non-subset trial fonts.At the time I wasn’t entirely confident it’d work — but with tangible benefits and only hypothetical risks, I had...
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Sales are up, support requests are down, and I haven’t seen any increase in font misuse.My situation is obviously not universal, but I mention this as a datapoint to anyone on the fence about providing...
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Cool analytics fact: in the last 30 days, the foundry website has had twice as many referrals from Twitter (a platform I haven’t used for ~2 years) as Instagram (a platform I use multiple times per...
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Desperate to sign up to the MD newsletter, but adamant that you don’t want to buy a font or download the trials package?Good news, both of you: I’ve added a direct signup form to the...
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I regret to inform customers of this type foundry that our new font release schedule is currently subject to delays.(we got kittens and they won’t let me get any work done)
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one day I’d like to learn the skill of sending an email without imitating the whoosh sound it makes
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Please welcome MD Nichrome V2.0.It’s the same typeface, just better: over 450 new glyphs, bringing language support up to the same standard as our newest releases (Latin M, to be specific), plus a...
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If you’ve previously licensed Nichrome via our website, you should be able to download the latest version here: https://mass-driver.com/order-historyIf you backed it on Future Fonts, you’ll get an...
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I’d’ve switched to Linux a lot sooner if I knew how easy it is to change the system font.
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