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
Austin Kleon: In my work, problems of output are problems of input. If my work sucks, it’s usually because I’m not being a good enough fan. I need to read, and read voraciously, searching for that thing that’s going to get me back on...
I couldn’t agree more with Chris here when he asks if it’s really necessary to show hundreds of junk fonts in macOS Ventura: That’s 567!!!! Fonts!!!! Automatically installed that you cannot remove or deactivate on macOS Ventura. What in...
We used to write CSS like this: a { color: blue;}a:hover { color: lightblue;} This kinda sucked for a lot of reasons. First, it means that our code is split up and disassociated from itself a bit. Second, because it gets harder to read...
Lucy and I chatted the other day about prototypes, the projects we’re workin’ on, and how to blog on the world wide web. My favorite bit is when Lucy shows the prototype she made for Seacritters!, her upcoming graphic novel about...
Jim Nielsen: That is why owning a domain (and publishing your content there) is like planting a tree: it’s value that starts small and grows. The best time to own a domain and publish your content there was 20 years ago. The second best...
Mark your calendars: next week on Tuesday Feb 7th, I’ll be chatting with Marcin Wichary in a livestream about his book, Shift Happens, which beautifully details the history of keyboards from punch cards and typewriters to the rectangles...
Okay, here’s a great chat with Nadia Asparouhova and Kicks Condor about writing mighty fine hypertext: Someone (I think Eugene Wei?) once tweeted that all Twitter accounts eventually sound like fortune cookies. I don’t want to become a...
Back in 2013 when I started my career there were a few big problems with CSS: We had to rely on Sass to get variables which made everything a lot more complicated than necessary (build environments and the like). We had to rely on a...
The Book Cover Review is a great project by David Pearson; it’s a website with quick, 500-word reviews of book covers from guest designers, typographers, and writers. It all looks lovely! Fine typesetting, cute and slightly odd...
It’s hard to be a person this morning. I find myself tired and angry, unsure of what to type, read, or do. My brisk early morning walk around the block is usually enough to jolt me awake as there’s ample time for a dazzling podcast or a...
If you’ve yet to play The Case of the Golden Idol then here’s another, louder reminder: go play it! It’s a fabulous detective game made up of a series of puzzles in which you have to figure out who is who, how they got murdered, and then...
Jenny on the relationship between your job and The Good Work™: I love work, by which I mean I love the feeling of focusing my energy toward a particular goal and watching the nebulous mist between here and there slowly thin to reveal...
When readers in Western Europe turned their eyes to printed books, around the middle of the 15th century, handwritten books became old-fashioned, unwanted, and ultimately obsolete. Bookbinders began to disassemble medieval manuscripts...
Marcin’s upcoming book about typewriters, Shift Happens, now has a glorious website where you can see what the finished thing is going to look like: Shift Happens is full of stories – some never before told – interleaved with 1,000+...
The new year is upon us! As I’ve lounged around the Christmas tree and drunk as much mulled wine as humanly possible (alas not that much because I am weak), I’ve been wondering if this was a good year for writing. What did I get done?...