Finer than leather grain — sub-millimeter pebble texture on the inside of an injection mold. Reads as soft tooth, almost satin from a meter away. The texture on a pen body, a laptop palmrest, a remote control, the soft-touch ABS of a consumer-electronics enclosure.
Photochemical or laser-etched mold texture in the pebble / orange-peel family. Reference levels: Mold-Tech MT-11010 (fine, ~6 µm Ra), MT-11015 (medium, ~10 µm Ra). VDI 3400 plates 30–34 (Ra 5–9 µm) cover the analogous range. Release with ~3° draft per side. Often paired with matte color formulation in the resin so the texture reads as the dominant character — the fine pebble breaks up specular reflection completely, hiding both flow lines and minor warpage.
character — fine soft tooth, near-matte, fingerprint-tolerant, the consumer-tech default.
SSPC SP10 surface-prep standards; manufacturer abrasive-blast and etch-chemistry guides.
House vocabulary — terms ForMatter uses with intent.
Materials and processes for people who design and make things.
A local-first library of materials, processes, applications, and finishes — equal weight, citable everywhere, so a student can move from "what is this" toward "what's actually buildable here, now, by me." Part of the renato.design ecosystem — sibling of Plenum, Specimen, Ingenue, gesture, graf, and the Renato Rhino plug-ins. Form and matter, inseparable.
Half of teaching materials is teaching how the material is made into the thing. The standard subscription library was always light on that half. The wedge here isn't better samples or a prettier interface — it's treating Process as a peer entity, not a footnote.
Conway, Lefteri, Forty, Sparke, ASM, GIA. Every voice: Voices.
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