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
Ya know something I’ve never played with before? SVG filters. Sure, I’ve taken a look at the tutorials and clicked around a few Pens here and there, but I’ve never fully invested in them as I didn’t ever see the point—I’m never going to...
A couple of months ago I moved my day-to-day internet life to Mastodon and you can find me here: fonts@sfba.social It almost, sort of, kinda feels like the fowl place back in 2008 or so when folks shared pictures of cool daffodils and...
Ahmad Shadeed wrote a fantastic thing about style queries the other day that I’m still trying to wrap my head around: Recently, the Chrome team released experimental support for a new proposed CSS spec, style queries. In short, they let...
For a start, when we consider rules, we have to ask: whose rules? That’s Cecelia Watson writing about punctuation and grammar in the fabulous little book I read last night called Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a...
Note to self: this week you need to sit down and play around with IndieKit, a tool that lets you publish things to your website. Here’s Paul Robert Lloyd writing about why he built this thing and what it does: Today I’m formally...
Ya know when a book might not be the best thing ever written but it’s the perfect book for you at that very moment? That’s what Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation was for me this weekend. I read this thing with righteous fury as...
Chris has a lot of exciting stuff to say about Arc here and why he hasn’t been interested in other browsers until now: I’ve developed some doubts about how much value a skin over an existing browser engine can actually bring. Like, don’t...
As we walk in the twilight-sunset-dark I find myself sniffling, then crying, then that other kind of crying. You know the kind, that overwhelming and heaving motion that takes full control but no matter how strong and disciplined I want...
For the Sentry blog I wrote about some of my experiences at work, like learning how to gather consensus and how to be political: When I first heard that you have to “sell” your designs many moons ago though I was horrified. Shouldn’t...
Stephen Coles celebrates Typographica’s 20th year with a look back through the archives and how the site began: Looking back at the bite-size, mostly-text, link-laden posts of those first few months, it becomes clear: early Typographica...
Last night, in a heated web design rage, I redesigned the tiny website of my newsletter, How Not To Make A Book. It bugged me for a while that I didn’t have archives of all the posts that are sent out via Buttondown and now it feels...
I’ve waited many days for this little thing. It’s just a tiny bit of plastic that showed up in the mail this morning. No fanfare, no angels singing, no warm, bright light. It’s just a tiny envelope, but one that happens to alter the...
We’re up earlier than usual, watching the sunrise, and our home is almost empty. The morning is crisp and pink, the soft blues of the sky are losing the fight up there between the intergalactic purples and oranges engaged in mortal...
Aegir’s website is extremely, impossibly, fantastically good. He only updates it once a week or so but when he does it’s fantastic: each blog post is a custom-designed card like Five Moons or Four Quarter Moons or The Yellow Season or...
I wrote about how we’re trying to be more playful with copywriting at Sentry and what other websites get wrong: Every website, to my ear, sounds as if it’s written by the same maniacally happy person sat at their keyboard typing. But I...