# Vellum
> Notes on design, type, and the craft of making things.
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Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`).

## Pages
- [About](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/about-2.md) - Vellum is a small journal about design and the craft of making things — typography, tools, interfaces, and the quiet decisions that separate good work from forgettable work. We are type-forward and opinionated. We believe constraints are a gift, that most things are improved by removing something,…
- [About this site](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/about.md) - Vellum is an independent publication launched in July 2026 by Ines Marlowe. If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. Your subscription makes this site possible, and allows Vellum to continue to exist. Thank you…

## Posts
- [The kerning is the message](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/the-kerning-is-the-message.md) - A short field guide to the space between letters, and why professionals lose sleep over it.
- [Notes on naming things](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/notes-on-naming-things.md) - The two hard problems in software, minus the joke. Why a good name is a design decision.
- [Against the redesign](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/against-the-redesign.md) - 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](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/the-specimen.md) - A working reference for how the theme sets prose — headings, emphasis, links, lists, quotes, code, tables, and rules.
- [What good tools have in common](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/what-good-tools-have-in-common.md) - Across a hammer, a text editor, and a good kitchen knife, the same three qualities keep showing up.
- [The typeface that fixed my writing](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/the-typeface-that-fixed-my-writing.md) - Change the font, change the sentence. On the strange feedback loop between how words look and how they read.
- [In praise of the boring interface](https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/in-praise-of-the-boring-interface.md) - The best tools disappear. A case for interfaces that do their job and then get out of the way.

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