Designed for the Glasgow 1999 typeface competition, Factory explores the idea of taking elements from Gaelic letterforms (as an historic British typestyle), such as the use of cut-off curved forms that suggest the action of writing, and re-interprets them for the late Twentieth Century. These are set against the circle-based geometry that the Macintosh produces so flawlessly to create a typeface that looks like it has been manufactured from a set of prefabricated units, like a ship or a car.