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Rosetta - Considerations in multilingual type design

https://rosettatype.com/articles/2015-02-16-considerations-in-multilingual-type-design

https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

Text: Reading is my passion Drawing: A person with a phone in their hands and a book in their lap. A person with a book in their hands, distracted by the passing of a fly. A person napping with a book on their face.

The world's simplest static site generator.

Pageboy.app

Family Values

Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus.

Style is consistent constraint

A pastry in the shape of Polycarbon’s lowercase g (joyride.studio)

Sites by Read.cv

“The shapes might look allied, but the message they convey may be very different in each script.” https://rosettatype.com/articles/2015-02-16-considerations-in-multilingual-type-design

Proud of my team!  🎉
Our eBay design system + brand team has been working on this collaboration for several years and I'm super excited it went public today.
Check it out: playbook.ebay.com

120 days after pushing my first commit, I’m considering Bobtail ‘feature complete enough’ 😎 Expect a more detailed rundown soon!

In the meantime, it’s now open to anyone who wants to try it out: http://bobtail.app

how you do stuff is just as important as what stuff you do

🆕🔠 New! A chunky pixelly typeface: Polycarbon. Use code FONTSSS to get 20% off. http://joyride.studio/polycarbon/

“When do the generated images become epistemologically indistinguishable from what Morris created?” https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

Welcome to the intermittent reading club 🫠

I shipped pageboy.app this year, and from an idea-to-execution standpoint I’m quite proud. That said, I think there’s more useful ground to tread here – something poised between this standalone micro-app and the Framers/Webflows of the world. Stay tuned in 2025.

Brian Eno, asking the real question:

"Why aren't programmes for grown-ups made with the same assumptions: viz, people are inpatient, want results quickly, prefer good rapport to endless options, are more concerned about easy usability than high fidelity"

📣 Say hi to Bobtail, a riff on the vibes of old-school forums, a deliberately unwalled garden for small communities. I’m getting closer to an open beta, and I’d love to start letting folks try it out. Sign up for an updates-only email list here: https://buttondown.email/bobtail

The number of times I've test emailed myself to make sure my email is working while waiting for responses from companies...

This kind of thoughtful dissection of ‘design intent’ is sadly lacking in our industry. https://benji.org/family-values

Ah, the true instinctive design process, down and to the right.

Building in constraints (limited palette, limited formats) creates good outputs

‘As little design as possible’ often requires as much design as possible

my toxic trait when updating my website is trying to add all the coded CSS and JS animations in and not focussing on getting the basic information up

Seeing lots of "fractional" job titles recently

“Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one” https://stephango.com/style

👀 I made a lil' guy who lives in your Mac menu bar and helps you to build static sites: https://pageboy.app

Kicking the tires on Adobe Firefly’s image reference functionality (seen here: a delicious version of Polycarbon’s lowercase g)

This is such an obvious extension of the read.cv cinematic universe (and cool/extensible in a way that isn’t necessary but is delightful) https://read.cv/sites/about

Straddling two teams at work; each has a fantastic PM, each with their own idiosyncratic methods. All this to say: there’s no one way to do good work.

Late-stage capitalism is big tech genuinely seeing loneliness as a multi-billion-dollar opportunity.

👋 I’ll be at Config2024 this coming week, if you’re there too yell “up top big dog!” and we can do a jumping high five (this will be excruciating but I’m committing to the bit)

Has anyone made a kit you can buy online for a killer home office setup (e.g., DSLR, big aperture lens, Camlink, key lights, etc.?) that all plays nice together? Feels like the possibility of bad choices when assembling this setup piecemeal is sky high.

🆕🔠 New! A variable-width funky-grid digital-camo typeface: Flecktarn! Use code FONTSSS to get 20% off. https://joyride.studio/flecktarn/

👋 I’ll be at Config in June. I want to hear about the cool things you’re making!

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