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ABOUT

Mom (or: MOM) [Pedro Mascarenhas]

Mom is the foundry of Pedro Mascarenhas, a type designer from Lisbon (b. 1967, Lisbon). Creator of Art Deco Neue (2011, a hacker font).

In 2013, he published the poster / fashion mag display sans typefaces Eliane Ultra Light and Eliane Bold, and the double view experimental typeface Mirror Display.

In 2017, he published Align Vertical Mono.

Author of TyMS Typefaces Measure System (2021), a document that explains weights in typefaces, including nomenclature and best practices. In particular, he gives this ranking:

100	Hairline
150	Thin
200	ExtraLight
250	SemiLight
300	Light
350	Book
400	Regular
450	SemiMedium
500	Medium
550	SemiBold
600	Bold
650	DemiBold
700	ExtraBold
750	Heavy
800	Black
850	UltraBlack
900	ExtraBlack

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Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type in Portugal ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Fashion mag typefaces ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Hacker fonts ⦿ Type measurements ⦿