The typeface that fixed my writing
Change the font, change the sentence. On the strange feedback loop between how words look and how they read.
Tools
What good tools have in common
Across a hammer, a text editor, and a good kitchen knife, the same three qualities keep showing up.
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The kerning is the message
A short field guide to the space between letters, and why professionals lose sleep over it.
Notes on naming things
The two hard problems in software, minus the joke. Why a good name is a design decision.
Against the redesign
Most redesigns are a change of costume, not a change of substance. A plea to fix the thing instead.
The specimen: every element, set in Vellum
A working reference for how the theme sets prose — headings, emphasis, links, lists, quotes, code, tables, and rules.
The Vellum letter
Essays on design, type, and the craft of making things — roughly monthly, never noisy.