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Mass-Driver
Company blog · mass-driver.com/articledesignwriting
Mass-Driver is the company blog at mass-driver.com, writing about design and writing. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for typography writing: a detailed summary of a font's spacing and history by its designer, and a typeface page cited as a place to buy web fonts directly from the designer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Typeface design and font production studio. Mass-Driver works across disciplines to create high quality original fonts.
What Hacker News says?
> Typography nerds are some of my favourite nerds. A very detailed summary for another font (by the creator of the font), including ancient materials as well: https://mass-driver.com/article/md-nichrome-on-spacing-and-s...
Comment linking /article/md-nichrome-on-spacing-and-sci-fi
on “Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays”Submitted Mass-Driver Typefaces as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYes. If you ever find yourself buying a webfont for your latest website or logo, always see if you can buy it direct from the designer. Monotype takes a huge (like >50%) cut if I remember correctly. For example, my last project I used MD System from Mass Driver for the web fonts ( https://mass-driver.com/typefaces/md-system ) and Denton from Peregrin Studio ( https://peregrinstudio.com/work/denton ) for my logo.
Comment linking /typefaces/md-system
on “I had no idea that one company basically owns every font”Submitted We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes as a story · 8 points
HN discussion> Generally if you have a sense of the vibe and space of the original work you'll find the remixing appalling, terrible. It's interesting that one can see this in other arts as well. One example from typography is how Trade Gothic, a mutt of a typeface if ever there was one, got "remastered" into Trade Gothic Next by Akira Kobayashi. The original is warm, scatterbrained, charming, completely imperfect, and generally…
Comment linking /typefaces/md-primer
on “Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix: current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’”Submitted Mass-Driver IO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MD Nichrome: On Spacing and Sci-Fi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simpler Font Licensing as a story · 1 points
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