Greetings
About
I’m Robin, a designer and writer from the UK but now I live in San Francisco. This is where I experiment with storytelling and browsers, rant about typography, and work in public. My current side project is The Cascade.
Abilities
Notes
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Stop Using AI-Generated Images
Yawn.
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People and Blogs
A chat with Manuel Moreale.
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Nuform Type
Man, the websites.
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Help is just help
What am I hoping for?
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Cut the Intro
We don’t need a manifesto.
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Design systems, color spaces, and CSS
OK…lch.
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The Cascade
Loving CSS in 2023 feels lonely.
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footer.design
So many opportunities!
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Typographic Malaise
I fear that I’ve seen everything that typography is capable of.
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Meta in Myanmar
Neglicence and genocide.
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Meh
Taking care in the face of apathy.
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Metra Ticket Gallery
Weak in the knees.
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Kobo Libra 2
It’s the closest thing we’ve got.
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v13
I will redesign my website today just to spite you.
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A lot of stuff is just fine.
“…you really gotta try to screw up a website”
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Processing painful work exits
How to cope when your job explodes.
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Why are websites embarrassing?
I don’t even trust the back button any more.
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
“Art does not progress by improving what came before…”
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Type Revival for Film & TV
Even a resume can be punk as hell.
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Where the gaps are
Take care of your portfolio and it’ll take care of you.
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Marmite Defontes
Piggle, Puff, and Snacks.
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Shufflin’
A new website (again).
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brr
The strange and curious doors of Antarctic stations.
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Dark mode in the ancient world
…on pages dyed a deep, bluish black.
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On successor states and websites
All it takes is one jerk.
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Writing Tools
Ending things with a thud!
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Guide Guide
Make complex grid systems real easy.
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What’s Next?
What do I want from a new gig?
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These Handsome Young Men
And the warmth of Morse code and folded letters.
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Parallax
A thousand galaxies, drifting by.
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Seven Gigabytes
“The ultimate zip file.”
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Update
New day, new website.
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Typography is a service, not an art
Take off your typographic monocle.
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The Risks of Staying Put
“…just because a situation is familiar doesn’t mean it’s the best that you can do.”
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The Linotype Book Project
The Linotype Book Project deserves all your emoji.
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To-do
A book is an endless list.
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Offsite
Bad work kills great teams.
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View Transitions API
How does this change web design in the future?
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Handwriting Fonts For Lo-Fi Design
Handwriting fonts are the definition of punk rock.
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Layers
Layers of complimentary vibrations!
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The Next Great Impasse
The Next Great Impasse is always just as big and as terrifying as the last one.
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The details element is amazing
The fifth planet in the solar system.
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Syntax × Sentry
“…your cool neighborhood dive bar.”
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Counter-space
I need to see the counter-space.
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The Mountain in the Sea
The world still contains miracles, despite everything that has been done to it.
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Time Control
This is not the way to do great work.
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1,799
What the hell am I doing?
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Your reading should be messy
That is what a book is for.
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The venture capitalist’s dilemma
“Venture capital may be the best way to serve the interests of capital, but we need to consider alternative models that prioritize the interests of people.”
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Artificial Guessing
AI is a mirror, AI is a prison.
Photo

Blogroll
- Lucy Bellwood
- Jez Burrows
- Chris Coyier
- Email is Good
- Erin Kissane
- Andy Baio
- Dave Rupert
- Scott Jehl
- Amelia Wattenberger
- Ethan Marcotte
- Aegir
- iA
- Going Medieval
- Andy McMillan
- Jason Santa Maria
- Una Kravets
- Jim Nielsen
- Jonas Downey
- Doug Wilson
- Justin Duke
- Stephanie Stimac
- Jeremy Keith
- Chloe Weil
- Kelly Sutton
- Kicks Condor
- maya.land
- Craig Mod
- Klim Type Foundry
- Lynn Fisher
- Marco Arment
- Nicole Slaw
- Glenn Fleishmann
- Ali Burnett
- Paul Robert Lloyd
- Piper Haywood
- Pixel Ambacht
- Quiet Babylon
- Marcin Wichary
- Rach Smith
- Matthias Ott
- Rachel Andrew
- Robin Sloan
- Shady Characters
- Jason Pamental
- Cassidy Williams
- Simon Collison
- Caren Litherland
- Stephen Coles
- David Sleight
- Casey Kolderup
- Susan Jean Robinson
- brr
- Alice Bartlett
- Eric Meyer
- Trent Walton
- Richard Rutter
- Harry Roberts
- Typographica
- Rogue Amoeba
- Leah Spencer
- Zach Leatherman
- Cassie Evans
- Chase McCoy
- Brad Frost
- Ire Aderinokun
- Alphabettes
- Sarah Makes Maps
- Bobulate
- Bramus Van Damme
- Nicole Sullivan
- Cabel Sasser
- Chen Hui Jing
- CSS in Real Life
- Jake Archibald
- Katy Decorah
- Kevin Clark
- Katherine Yang
- Tom MacWright
- Miriam Suzanne
- Henry Desroches
- Geoff Graham
- Baldur Bjarnason
Typesetting
Söhne by Klim Type is perfect and I use it everywhere, but I can’t really say why since I mostly roll my eyes at big chunky neo-grotesques. You see them all the time and they look mean in a way that I find unpleasant. But Söhne has a warmth to it that’s missing in the other descendants of Akzidenz-Grotesk. It’s just lovely.
MD IO by Mass Driver is another favorite and I use it for captions and code blocks. It’s sort of in the same category as Söhne where I’ve seen endless mono typefaces and shrugged but this one makes me perk up and snap to attention. Oh, and make sure to check out the excellent type specimen site, too.
Birthplace
Home
Total Redesigns
Under the Hood
This website was built with Eleventy and published via Netlify. You can view all the code over on GitHub if you want to take any inspiration for a website of your own. Oh, and this website doesn’t collect any information from you and there’s no cookies cus I respect ya and don’t want to grift ya.
I change the styles and typography of this website a lot, sometimes multiple times a week. Let a website be a worry stone, etc.