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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 29/06/2026

We actually ran into this issue with the Condensed Black styles for MD System: the italics have a slightly rounder curve in places, like the /o counter, because cubic béziers can’t handle squareness, G2 continuity *and* interpolation smoothness. Fine at intended size, but I wasn’t happy about it

Screenshot of two lowercase o glyphs from MD System. On the left, the Condensed Black has a relatively high curve tension (i.e. it’s quite squarish); on the right, the Condensed Black Italic is just a little more oval.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 09/06/2026

Update: MD Thermochrome version 0.5 is out today! This update adds 19 new icons, 14 new currency symbols, and support for the Latin M character set (430+ languages). futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...

3D render of a bundle of cables. They’re a mix of black, white and reddish orange, with text printed on them in MD Thermochrome (a combination of symbols, numbers, and labels).

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 08/06/2026

Type Foundry Directory (typefoundry.directory) is one of the best resources out there for finding independent type designers & foundries. This month, not just the nameplate but the entire site is set in our latest typeface, MD UI — there’s no better specimen than a real-world use case.

Screenshot of the Type Foundry Directory, showing the name of the site in MD UI. Partly visible at the bottom are a couple of rows of the main list of type foundries.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 07/05/2026

Last month was the 25 year anniversary of the legalisation of equal marriage in the Netherlands. To mark the occasion, the Dutch Central Bank and the Royal Mint together issued a limited-run €5 coin, designed by Koos Breen and set in my typeface, MD Nichrome.

Closeup photo of a silver coin balanced on fingertips. The design features a series of concentric circles, mostly cut off on the left side to form a rainbow motif, with each band engraved at a slight angle to create a gradient effect as it catches the light.

The engraved text, in all-caps MD Nichrome, reads ‘25 jaar openstelling van het huwelijk voor iedereen’ (‘25 years of marriage [being] open for everyone’), the two Os of ‘voor’ overlapped like linked rings, and the final word (‘everyone’) set apart and highlighted in the centre of the rainbow.

The same coin, tilted slightly to show the gradient effect of the ‘rainbow’ section in a different light.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 29/04/2026

My 2024–26 entries have been loosely imagined as a trilogy, set in a medieval far future. Their descriptions are all 4-line poems (in alt text).

Is there truth to the tales of the darkness,
Where the light of the Sun God can’t reach?
In the deep, are their camera-eyes watching?
Do mechanical hearts there still beat?
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Bright red cartridge with super-condensed lettering (‘Sun God’) interrupted by an intense black-and-white sun motif.

Awake, brave Knight, for the dawn comes not:
Your duty is not done!
Take up the blade you bore in life.
Bring back to us the Sun.
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Title lettering in a flared sans typeface (‘O Knight of Many Stars’) above a sword, surrounded by stars and decorative text in pale blue.

O Knight, uphold the oath you swore:
Your war is not yet won.
But the night is darkest just before
The rising of the sun.
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Title lettering (‘Daybreak’) in a tight-spaced blackletter, the same shade of red as Sun God, with supporting elements in the same shade of blue as O Knight of Many Stars.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 29/04/2026

Daybreak (Part III) — Cartridge design & custom lettering for the 2026 My #Famicase Exhibition at METEOR, Tokyo (@super-meteor.bsky.social)

ockup of a cartridge for the 1980s Nintendo Famicom. The word ‘Daybreak’ appears in bright red on a black background, in a high-contrast and tightly-spaced blackletter style, surrounded by supporting text and elements in blue.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 18/03/2026

New release: MD UI. The International Typographic Style projected one step into the future. UI is a neo-grotesque tuned for maximum performance across all scales; a typeface that augments the function of a timeless form. Available today in 48 styles. mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...

A list of all 48 styles of MD UI: three optical sizes, eight weights in each, and matching italics. The typeface is a clean, slightly squarish geometric sans in the neo-grotesque style.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 18/12/2025

For any game developers* caught by the Monotype/Fontworks price hikes: - you can use our fonts for video games - there are no usage caps or renewal fees - unrestricted trial fonts for in-engine testing - smaller dev teams pay less. mass-driver.com *Extended Latin support, but not Japanese, sorry!

MD Nichrome, a geometric sans-serif with a strong retro flavour, syncopated proportions. It’s inspired by 70s sci-fi paperback covers, and available in 16 styles (8 weights, from a very thin to a very bold, with matching obliques).

MD Polychrome, a typeface based on magnetic ink bank numbers (and the various retro-high-tech fonts they inspired in the 60s and 70s). Available in four styles, loosely corresponding to different print sizes rather than weights.

MD IO, a monospaced typeface intended for super-legible text. It’s somewhat futuristic in appearance (but not distractingly so) with strongly textured italics. Available in 16 styles, with weights from very light to very bold.

MD Lórien, a slightly ornate serif influenced by Caslon and the 18th century European typefaces which Caslon’s fonts were derived from. It’s available in five weights, with matching italics, swash caps, ligatures, etc. etc.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 17/11/2025

Available now: MD Thermochrome v0.4 adds over 100 new icons to the typeface, all of which respond to weight and italic angle just like every other glyph. Legibility not guaranteed www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...

A handful of key glyphs (lowercase a, asterisk, ampersand, capital R, superscript 1, percent sign) from MD Thermochrome, showing the visual language of the typeface. It’s a dotmatrix-style typeface made from circles and rounded horizontal lines, which grow and shrink to form the multiple weights.

A selection of icons from the typeface, highlighted in red, interspersed with words describing them (or described by them) in white.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 17/11/2025

The v0.4 update for MD Thermochrome is finally ready, and it’ll ship later today! This version of the typeface includes 100+ new icons for UI design, wayfinding, and more. There’s a few more hours to get it at the current price, with lifetime updates included: www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...

A grid of 133 icons, symbols and arrows, from the upcoming V0.4 release of MD Thermochrome. Among them are icons for weather conditions, arrival/departures signs, documents, playing card suits, media controls, and common UI symbols.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 29/10/2025

These icons have been a surprisingly common request, and, less surprisingly, a tricky challenge. The workflow I came up with involves sketching using rectangular pixels in @aseprite.org, and some custom tooling in @glyphsapp.com to snap everything to the typeface’s grid.

Screenshot of the Aseprite pixel art editor, showing a handful of icons from MD Thermochrome made from tall rectangular pixels (7:10 ratio). A microscope icon is selected.

Screenshot from the font editor Glyphs, showing the same microphone icon now recreated using the circles and pill shapes from MD Thermochrome.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 29/10/2025

Made the call last week to push our late 2025 release to early 2026. The delay might be disappointing, but I feel extremely fortunate that we can take as much time as this project needs. In the meantime, here’s a preview of something else I’ve been working on: MD Thermochrome icons

Sample text with some icons set in MD Thermochrome. It’s a dot-matrix–inspired typeface constructed from circles and rounded horizontal lines, and the icons are rendered in the same style.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 07/10/2025

A small update: if you’re buying fonts via our website, there’s now an option to apply a 50% student discount without needing to contact us. (You can always use our trial fonts in class without paying anything — this is only for commercial projects, published websites, etc.) mass-driver.com

Screenshot of a section of the checkout page on our foundry website, showing a checkbox marked ‘Licensee is a student’ (currently selected). The line below reads, ‘50% off. Student licenses remain valid after you graduate.’

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 24/09/2025

Super nice example of MD Nichrome in use, by Malcontenti Studio for Yatasto, a bar/pizzeria in Buenos Aires. (I love seeing projects like this!) Via @fontsinuse.com: fontsinuse.com/uses/71993/y...

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 03/09/2025

For years, @matthewsmith.website’s typefoundry.directory has been my favourite place to discover new, independent type foundries. This summer Matthew released a huge update to the site, and also (finally!) let me support his efforts with a sponsorship — this month, the nameplate is set in MD Lórien

Screenshot of the new Type Foundry Directory main page, showing the name “Type Foundry Directory” (very large, set in MD Lórien Italic), and the first couple of foundry listings.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 14/08/2025

About a month ago this arrived at the studio, and I *adore* it. Long Way Home is a book on the work of Belarusian artist Masha Maroz. Its titles are set in MD Thermochrome, which doesn’t (yet) support Cyrillic — so the designers made their own. Via @fontsinuse.com: fontsinuse.com/uses/69970/l...

Scan of the contents page of Long Way Home. Section titles are set in slightly tracked all-caps MD Thermochrome, in English on the verso page and Belarusian on the recto. The paper is off-white, with a rich yellow gradient towards the spine. Small supplementary text is in wide-tracked Roboto, also in all caps.

Scan of an article title page from the book. On the verso page is a large image of a tree trunk standing before a snowy woodland, wrapped in brightly-coloured ribbons. The book title is written in three languages (English, French and Belarusian) vertically along the spine, in all-caps MD Thermochrome.

On the recto page is the title and opening paragraphs of an interview. The title is also in all-caps Thermochrome, with the body text, page numbers, and a note stating the page number of the English translation all in Roboto.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 09/07/2025

Take Back Mokum: a collection of essays, interviews, illustrations and more, around the theme of squatting and housing in Amsterdam. The first (& I hope not the last!) book set in my typeface, MD Lórien. Via @fontsinuse.com: fontsinuse.com/uses/67027/t... Typeface: mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...

Front cover of a paperback book, titled Take Back Mokum: Squatting and the Housing Struggle in Amsterdam. White text in MD Lórien on a purple background, with rough (linocut?) illustrations of a mix of domestic and municipal objects (e.g. a cooking pot, cargo bike, bar stools, angle grinder).

Closeup of a page from the book, showing a section title and opening paragraph. All the text, again, is in MD Lórien.

Layout & typography by Jan Egbers (janegbers.info).

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 03/07/2025

In love with the typesetting on these posters, too (mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...)

Poster for Aaron Parks’ summer 2025 tour. Pastel lavender and yellow, with an abstract circular design and text set in MD Nichrome.

Poster for Aaron Parks’ May 2025 tour. A moody, dark blue abstract design based around concentric circles, similar to the album artwork (quoted). White all-caps text is overlaid in two weights of MD Nichrome.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 25/06/2025

MD Thermochrome v0.3 is now available! This update adds 33 new styles, for a total of 40 — including a new Medium weight and 4 sets of italics. (Also included are arrows, super & subscript, and a fractions OpenType feature) www.future-fonts.com/mass-driver/...

Overview of the 8 weights in MD Thermochrome 0.3 (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black & Ultra).

The typeface itself is a tightly-spaced, dot-matrix–inspired design, where horizontally adjacent dots merge into lines.

Composition showing all 5 italic variants arranged in a wave (each line of text is incrementally more or less slanted than the previous).

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 24/06/2025

The next update to MD Thermochrome will be out tomorrow, adding 33 (!) new styles: a new Medium weight, plus 4 sets of italics. As always with Future Fonts releases, the price will increase for new buyers, but existing customers get all updates for free www.future-fonts.com/mass-driver/...

An overview showing all 40 styles of MD Thermochrome v0.3. Eight weights from Thin to Ultra (Medium is new in this update), all of which are available in 5 different slants: Reclined, Retalic, upright, Italic and Inclined.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 12/06/2025

Nevertheless, there are still a lot of questions about exactly how the new model will work — people care a lot about where (and how) they get their fonts. Reader, just this once, I would ask you to complete a survey. fontstand.com/survey (~15 mins)

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025

Unless the creator makes them public domain, all fonts are subject to a license of some kind. With free fonts, that’s often a very permissive, do-what-you-want license. For other fonts, you pay the designer for the right to use it under specific terms — they still own it, but you can use it.

A black and white render of my own foundry’s license agreement. It’s a fairly dull-looking A4 sheet of paper with a lot of text on it. One corner is folded over, to evoke the classic ‘document’ icon

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025

Nowadays, a font is a piece of software. It contains instructions for a computer to draw the letters and symbols (‘glyphs’) of a typeface, along with a lot of other data. Often a font contains only one variant of a typeface, but fonts containing multiple variants are increasingly common.

Sample data from a font file converted to XML format. It shows some basic headers and metadata, with the <GlyphOrder> section truncated.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025

A font is the technology that allows a typeface to be used. Historically, this was movable type: a set of individual pieces (‘sorts’), usually made of metal, assembled into lines of text. With movable type, every size, weight and other variant of a typeface needed a separate font.

Black and white photograph illustrating the physical, analogue nature of metal type. (I know, these aren’t actually sorts, they’re punches — part of the manufacturing process — but I don’t have a better photo to hand.)

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025

A typeface is a specific design for a set of letters, numbers, symbols, and so on. Often, that design includes variations, like bold and italics, different widths, or even radically different styles. If these styles all share a name, they’re one typeface.

Overview of all the weights, widths and italics from one typeface, MD System. Each width (Standard, Narrow, Condensed and Monospace) has 5 weights (Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold and Black), and each weight also has an italic counterpart, for a total of 40 styles.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025

Here’s how they fit together, in the most straightforward terms: a typeface is what you see, a font is what you use, and a license is what you pay for.

Illustration showing a typeface (“MD System”, with letters of different weights and italic angles); a font (“MDSystem-Bold.otf”, an icon representing a digital font file); and a license (“EULA.pdf”, an icon representing a license agreement). They’re arranged in a triangle with arrows connecting them.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025

Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole! ...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance. 🧵 A thread:

Alphabet and numbers in a monospaced typeface (MD System Mono, specifically), arranged in a grid. In the bottom row, ‘$0’ (zero dollars) is highlighted in bright red.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 03/06/2025

Via @fontsinuse.com: MD Nichrome in use for Révéler l’impact, an exhibition on the impacts of mining and mineral extraction. More info: fontsinuse.com/uses/68263/r... Typeface: mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...

Poster board advertising Révéler l’impact, an exhibition on the impact of mining and mineral extraction. The title and supporting text are set in MD Nichrome (with a nice use of the alternate tabular numbers at the bottom), weaving between organic-looking layers of abstracted purple, green and silver textures.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 21/05/2025

Back in 2023, we made a custom typeface for Bonnaroo festival — MD Bonnachrome is still front and centre for the 2025 event (and I’m still getting excited every time a new poster drops). The case study: mass-driver.com/custom/bonna... The festival: www.bonnaroo.com

Poster for “Remi Wolf’s Insanely Fire 1970s Pool Party Superjam”, an event scheduled as part of Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2025. Expertly-typeset (seriously, their design team is phenomenal) all caps bold type with a 1970s vibe. Beneath the text block is a grainy, colourful, psychedelic illustration of a pool with an inflatable flamingo and green orbs.

Lineup poster for Bonnaroo’s ‘Who Stage’. Text in the same typeface and style (MD Bonnachrome, a custom design based on MD Nichrome) sits on a textured background of stars.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 19/05/2025

I’m really happy to see MD Lórien used for Robin Sloan’s recent zine, The Secret Playbook (on strategies for artists to counter AI models) — and in great company, next to DJR’s exceptional Clavichord! www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/...

Closeup of the cover page of Robin Sloan’s zine, ‘The Secret Playbook’. A highly textured Risograph print of a greyscale photo, with ornate, condensed blackletter caps (Clavichord, from DJR) overlaid in red ink.

Closeup of the top corner of the first page (I’m trying to keep the text secret!). ‘The Secret Playbook’ is visible, all caps in a wide sans-serif, with body text below it set in MD Lórien.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 25/04/2025

“Awake, brave Knight, for the Dawn comes not!” — O Knight of Many Stars Cartridge design & custom lettering for the 2025 My Famicase Exhibition at METEOR, Tokyo. #famicase

Mockup of a cartridge for the 1980s Nintendo Famicom. White text on a black background, with violet sword, stars & supporting elements. The main lockup reads ‘O Knight of Many Stars’ in an incised, angular flared serif.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 22/04/2025

MD Thermochrome version 0.2 is now available! This is a pretty big update, with 6 new weights (i.e. 600% more than v0.1), all of them duplexed to allow for various stacking and layering effects. Also a variable font, and slightly better language support. www.future-fonts.com/mass-driver/...

List of the available weights in MD Thermochrome (Thin, Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, Black & Ultra, plus a variable font version), with each word set in its respective weight.

List of words (each the exact same width) in increasing weights of MD Thermochrome, with the relevant weight labeled in a darker colour over the top.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 08/04/2025

I guess it’s #PortfolioDay! I’m Rutherford, I’m a type designer running a small foundry in The Hague. We (me + friends) make really good fonts, and distribute them via a model designed to be simple and fair. Studio: mass-driver.com Latest case study: mass-driver.com/article/md-l...

Overview of 15 styles from MD System, my flagship sans-serif typeface. It’s available in 4 widths (the 3 shown here, plus a monospaced version), with 5 weights each, and matching italics.

The design is influenced by 20th-century grotesks like Akzidenz and Helvetica, but designed to feel warmer and more human.

3D render highlighting the four optical sizes (Nano, Kilo, Mega & Giga) of MD Polychrome, my tribute to 1960s ‘digital-style’ typefaces.

A comparison between MD Primer, a typeface influenced by late-1800s sans-serif designs, and one of those designs (Gothic No. 2, from Cincinnati Type Foundry).

An alphabet of swash caps set in my latest release, MD Lórien. It’s a contemporary interpretation of Dutch baroque typefaces, an elegant serif intended to be readable but with a little more ornateness and sparkle than normal.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 04/04/2025

I’m not quite ready to lock in a release date, but I’ve been making progress on v0.2 of MD Thermochrome. The main focus is this (duplexed) inkbleed/dot size axis, which opens up a huge range of options for layering text.

The word “Thermochrome”, in all caps, spanning the width of the image. Each letter is comprised of dots and lines in varying sizes, and rendered in black, white and reddish orange based on their overlaps.

Above the word is the Mass-Driver logomark, and below it the text “Version 0.2 * Coming when it’s ready”.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 26/02/2025

MD IO is now on programmingfonts.org! The typeface you use for code is an incredibly personal thing, so I’m happy that it’s now easier to compare IO with other designs in context.

Screenshot of the programmingfonts.org preview area, showing a sample of Python code typeset in MD IO.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 03/02/2025

New work! Ampersands (and some technical/engineering assistance) for DCZ GLYPH, a collaborative font by 30+ designers. Available now for a limited time, with proceeds benefiting the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund: dczglyph.com

Ampersand overlaid on a grid of various other glyphs from the DCZ Glyph typeface. It’s an elaborate, decorative design with faux-3D shading based (loosely) on a Lettergieterij Amsterdam design, ‘Versierde Gravure Cursief’.

Ampersand overlaid on a grid of various other glyphs from the DCZ Glyph typeface. A stencil design made from four sharp-ended elements, with a descending tail.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 06/01/2025

If you’re starting a new project this week and reaching for the Lorem Ipsum text, make sure you also testing with real-world copy. Latin always looks great, it’s all n’s and o’s and beautiful rhythm — real text is messy, full of k’s and 5’s and punctuation. Design for the mess!

Two blocks of text, set in the same typeface (MD Lórien) at the same size. One is the classic ‘lorem ipsum’ dummy text, with a very clean, regular appearance; the other is English (taken from an article about type design history), with punctuation, capitals, numbers and a bit of italic all contributing to it being a messier, less rhythmic texture.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 06/12/2024

The first @fontsinuse.com use of MD Thermochrome is already published, and what a great one! Aside from the excellent set of films, check out the custom XIII numeral and the »–> arrows at the top fontsinuse.com/uses/64743/m...

3-colour riso-printed poster for a film triple feature: Blade Runner, Apollo 13 and The Matrix. The poster is set in MD Thermochrome, a dot-matrix–inspired typeface.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 29/11/2024

MD Polychrome (right, 2022) is my contemporary take on mid-20th-century MICR-style typefaces like Gemini (left, ca. 1966). Unlike the originals, it comes in four distinct versions for use at different sizes, and supports 400+ languages.

Cover of my copy of ‘Modern Graphics’ (Keith Murgatroyd, 1969). The book title is set in Franco Grignani’s typeface Gemini, an unconventional typeface designed to evoke the shape of MICR numerals (those magnetic-ink printed numbers on old cheques and bank cards).

Sample of MD Polychrome, a contemporary typeface based on both the original MICR numerals and other interpretations like Gemini. The typeface comes in four optical sizes: Nano, Kilo, Mega and Giga; this sample shows each one, rendered in 3D multicoloured chrome on a black background.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 20/11/2024

Last year we changed how our trial fonts work, to make testing them a bit easier. Here’s the deal: - All 99 fonts are free to download - They’re not subset — functionally they’re the same as the full versions - If you’re a student, you can use them in class as well mass-driver.com/trial-fonts

Screenshot of a macOS Finder window showing the contents of the MD trial fonts download package. There are ten folders, one for each typeface.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 18/11/2024

MD IO on some incredible looking hardware. I cannot stress enough how much I love seeing my fonts used like this Design by @levipack.bsky.social The Technician: www.matthewseffects.com/products/tec... (the typeface: mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...)

Top-down photo of a work surface with various electrical components strewn around the border. In the centre is a MIDI device in the form of a white metal square studded with a grid of silver dials and buttons. It’s labelled “The Technician” in all caps, with the inputs labelled in a techy-feeling monospace typeface (MD IO).

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 15/11/2024

Love seeing MD Thermochrome already being used! In this case for @fartdirector.bsky.social’s Fall 2024 playlist/Medium writeup (medium.com/@jason-combs...)

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 13/11/2024

I’m keen to hear what other people suggest, but there are some plans already! A couple sketches from back in July (!) when I was trying out a weight axis — not sure these’ll make it into the design unchanged, but maybe something similar:

Early draft of MD Thermochrome featuring different weights. Boldness is achieved through extending dots into wider horizontal bars

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 13/11/2024

My new typeface is out today! MD Thermochrome is a typeface meant to evoke (though not imitate) fonts from dot-matrix and thermal printers. Available as a WIP via Future Fonts — if you license it now, you’ll get updates for free as the design progresses: www.futurefonts.xyz/mass-driver/...

An image both announcing and showcasing MD Thermochrome. The typeface is constructed from a grid of dots, with horizontally-adjacent ones joined to form rounded bar shapes.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 28/10/2024

Maybe the single best thing about type design is getting to see my fonts used really well (by people with far better graphic design skills than me). Case in point: Aaron Parks’ new album, Little Big III, with cover art set in my typeface MD Nichrome. Designed by Maria Jarzyna.

Reverse cover. Here the blue gradients appear as vertical lines, with the track listing and credits aligned to them as an eccentric grid.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 25/09/2024

Today I published a huge update to our most popular typeface, MD Nichrome. 450+ new glyphs for massively improved language support, plus a new set of stylistic alternates (the Marvin- & Busorama-inspired ‘Gothic’ set, shown here). Available now. mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...

The text “A New MD Nichrome” sits above a grainy retro-shaded globe covered with the names of languages. The text is set in two weights of MD Nichrome, with the new Gothic Alternates stylistic set enabled.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 18/09/2024

Since Bluesky now supports video, here’s the release trailer for MD Lórien, my most recent typeface. It’s a digital-first interpretation of Baroque-era Dutch typefaces through the lens of Caslon (which is not exactly easy to represent in abstract visuals)

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 11/06/2024

My new typeface is out today. A quarter of a millennium after William Caslon’s eponymous classic, MD Lórien is a new English interpretation of the Dutch Baroque. mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...

The name of the typeface, ‘MD Lórien’, over an elaborate background of abstract green and gold forms.

A list of styles (five weights from Regular to Black, with complementary italics) set in MD Lórien.

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 06/06/2024

I guess hmu if you need to typeset a fantasy novel and/or anthology of romantic verse (only partially joking)

Sample text ‘Queen & King’ set in a gently ornate serif typeface. The word ‘Queen’ is italicised, with an extravagant looped swash Q.

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