Across a hammer, a text editor, and a good kitchen knife, the same three qualities keep showing up.
Ines Marlowe
1 min read
Change the font, change the sentence. On the strange feedback loop between how words look and how they read.
Caleb Yoon
1 min read
The best tools disappear. A case for interfaces that do their job and then get out of the way.
Ines Marlowe
1 min read
Most of a typeface is not the letters. A working note on sidebearings, and why the gaps are the real design.
Priya Raman
1 min read
A short and slightly embarrassing inventory of software I was sure I needed.
Caleb Yoon
1 min read
Print solved this a century ago. The browser is only now catching up, and most of us are not using what it gained.
Priya Raman
1 min read
A defence of the most misused mark in English, from someone who has drawn several hundred of them.
Priya Raman
1 min read
The companion to the specimen: how the theme renders every editor card — callouts, buttons, toggles, bookmarks, galleries and full-bleed images.
Ines Marlowe
2 min read
A short field guide to the space between letters, and why professionals lose sleep over it.
Caleb Yoon
1 min read
The two hard problems in software, minus the joke. Why a good name is a design decision.
Ines Marlowe
1 min read
Most redesigns are a change of costume, not a change of substance. A plea to fix the thing instead.
Caleb Yoon
1 min read
A working reference for how the theme sets prose — headings, emphasis, links, lists, quotes, code, tables, and rules.
Ines Marlowe
1 min read
Essays on design, type, and the craft of making things — roughly monthly, never noisy.
