mass-driver

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   by mass-driver 2mo ago

   It’s not about throwing out the process, it’s about making sure the end product is the result of intentional decisions rather than just going with the flow of whatever tool is being used. The grain isn’t intrinsically bad, but in a performa
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   by mass-driver 2mo ago

   To answer your first question: almost all good fonts start with sketches on paper. Every tool has a kind of grain, a sort of ‘shape language’ it pushes you towards making, and the bézier curves fonts use internally are surprisingly opiniona
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   by mass-driver 2mo ago

   Hey, I’m the author of this article. Just thought I’d share some context, since HN is a little outside the intended audience: - We’re a tiny design studio specialising in fonts, so our website was (maybe predictably) not set up to handle a
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   by mass-driver 2mo ago

   Sorry for the disruption! This is 100x our normal peak traffic, needed to raise the instance limit.