What is the Massif™ font?
“Designers can’t help but be inspired by the things that surround them,” says Massif’s designer Steve Matteson. An avid mountain climber, Matteson found his inspiration for his text face family in the dramatic granite formations of North America’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. More…
Most of Matteson’s type designs are custom projects designed with an end use or customer in mind. Massif, which had no customer or specific purpose, was probably his most personal typeface to date. “My goal was to embody, in Massif’s two-dimensional letterforms, the angular tension and smooth curvature characteristic of the rugged terrain of Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome, which was formed by eons of glacial and tectonic activity,” Matteson explains. The typeface’s striking design echoes the faults and fissures that define a massif formation, resulting in a rich texture when used for body text and revealing distinctive shapes and proportions at display sizes.
The Massif family comes in six weights, from Light to ExtraBold, each with an italic companion. The OpenType Pro suite contains small caps, ligatures and old style figures, and offers a small set of decorative ornaments. Pro fonts also include an extended character set supporting most Central European and many Eastern European languages.
Massif™ Font families
The Massif™ includes the following font families:
- Massif Pro Light
- Massif Pro Light Italic
- Massif Pro Semi Light
- Massif Pro Semi Light Italic
- Massif Pro Regular
- Massif Pro Italic
- Massif Pro Semi Bold
- Massif Pro Semi Bold Italic
- Massif Pro Bold
- Massif Pro Bold Italic
- Massif Pro Extra Bold
- Massif Pro Extra Bold Italic
- Massif Std Light
- Massif Std Light Italic
- Massif Std Semi Light
- Massif Std Semi Light Italic
- Massif Std Regular
- Massif Std Italic
- Massif Std Semi Bold
- Massif Std Semi Bold Italic
- Massif Std Bold
- Massif Std Bold Italic
- Massif Std Extra Bold
- Massif Std Extra Bold Italic
Massif™ Preview
Here is a preview of how Massif™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
