Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
I’m Robin, a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco. Today I’m a designer at Apple although previously I’ve made software at Retool, Sentry, and Gusto as well as for clients like Buttondown and XOXO.
Latest Posts
I’ve been thinking about what I want from a new gig. Lately too much of my time has been spent working alone, making things in a bubble, pitching ideas in isolation. It’s pretty lonely! How do I fix that? What I want is a co-conspirator...
I’m teleported back in time 200 years to the warmth of Morse code and folded letters as I walk in the door—I can almost see the haberdasheries and cobblestone paths that crowd the outside world through the windows as I turn back to close...
A blog is for loving things whole-heartedly and so I must inform you that I love Parallax by Atlas Sound. It’s an album that I come back to once a year and it reminds me of cold, snowy days at uni (was there really snow? That doesn’t...
Paul Ford archived his father’s poetry and writing, uploading it to the Internet Archive: My father’s last decade was one of relentless downsizing, from apartment to assisted living to nursing home, shedding belongings, throwing away...
Fixed a few things around these parts today; I started using Fakir for headings and tidied up a lot of stuff on smaller screens. The biggest change is that the headings now change size depending on the width of the container that they’re...
I never liked Untitled Sans or its brother, Untitled Serif. There was a sort of anti-design-designer thing going on with them. They screamed “I am extremely from New York City” for some reason, as if they were designed for ugly...
Last month Mandy Brown wrote about how she struggled to quit her job and this bit hit me like a sledgehammer: “I assumed that all the risk was in moving, that by definition staying put was the prudent option.” Same! For months I’ve been...
Back in 2012, Doug Wilson made one of those Defining Media Objects for me—a fantastic movie called Linotype: The Film. Watching it then in college, it certainly pushed me towards publishing and typography and learning about these...
I’m not ready to write just yet; the sun is in the wrong place, the coffee is too hot, my sweater is too scratchy. I’ll take any excuse I can get to avoid sitting down and bang my head against a block of text that refuses to figure...
A calendar invite will appear with a cryptic note: a strange location attached — somewhere in the middle of nowhere up north, across the bridge — and a dozen or so people on your team will be subscribed. It might be bowling, or a visit...
I can’t look at Dave’s tutorial about the View Transitions API without my mind racing through all the possibilities here. How does this change web design in the future? Do websites even use frameworks if all you need for some app-like...
Sometimes you don’t want to get distracted by flashy fonts and colors and what you really need is a great typeface that looks handwritten. But the other day I struggled finding something appropriate so, after asking around, I’m noting...
There’s a lot of similarities between writing music and building websites. And, in my teens, that’s what I thought I’d be doing with my career; spending my lifetime in a dark room, playing with sounds and tinkering with adding layers...
One of the real fucked up things about being an adult is how all those feelings you had at sixteen—not knowing what you’re doing with your life etc.—never really leave you. Those feelings might temporarily soften and quiet down but...
Have you seen those fancy cards that pop open when ya click em and reveal more info? I think I saw em on Apple dot com not so long ago although now I can’t find a good example. Well, this morning I realized we don’t need a ton of...