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From last month but relevant as Europe is seeing record heat right now: Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052.…

Hello, Kind People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪣 Studio DRAMA has done some outstanding custom typeface work for KFC…

Here's another little update to the Qobuz Beta theme. Their use of Tailwind continues to be an obstacle, as there just aren't enough semantic classes to style things how I would like. In the vein, thi…

Two weeks ago, I quietly pushed up a new look for this website. Some redesigns happen over a year or two; others happen over a few months. Neither one’s easy, mind you, but this one’s the l…

A simple and reliable way to use CSS counters Have you ever discovered a tiny piece of code hiding in plain site that made your life a little bit easier? This post is about one of those.…

Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and…

Redesigning as a method of interrogation. Okay, okay, okay. I did it again. Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there. But this…

Ever since this bug, I’ve been less interested in striving for perfection. Instead, I try to invest in being prepared to handle unexpected failures.…

“The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your…

Jeff Kellem and I met at TypeCon in 2015, where at one point he informally shared a type specimen of a work in progress, which would become “1403 Vintage Mono”. The typeface design immediately f…