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
My favorite typeface right now is Magnet by Inga Plönnigs. I’ve been working on a side project for the last couple of weeks that I’ll be sharing with y’all this weekend and Magnet has been by my side the whole time, making me look much...
Sprints and backlogs and pointing tickets—the nigh-on universal method for making software today—is stupid. All this junk around the work makes software slower and more difficult to build. It’s form-filling monkey work and the only way...
Ages ago, Marcin wrote this great piece about printing a small batch of books: I’ve recently found myself wanting to print a small run (15 copies) of a book. I approached this knowing pretty well what I wanted: a simple, old-school book...
I don’t think I’ve ever linked to Alphabettes before but this blog is thoroughly worth adding to yer RSS feed. I stumbled over the website again today doing some research for a little thing and forgot how joyous it is. The Alphabettes...
I missed this 2022 update for MD System and this particularly lovely specimen website: MD System’s standard width is designed for running text and punchy titles alike. Its proportions are geared towards readability and an overall natural...
My relationship with the internet is changing. I don’t really have a home on the web now, a place I can go to log-in, kick back, and doom scroll. That makes me happy for many reasons—yay for no abuse and casual violence!—but also sad for...
Jeremy wrote a great piece about how we treat our work: Here’s the thing: there’s good work and there’s working hard. What matters is doing good work. Often, to do good work you need to work hard. And so people naturally conflate the...
Saunders, of course: The closer we look at a time and place, the less strange it seems, the more knowable, the more like our own. (And also, of course, the more specifically different from our own.) We learn, or remind ourselves, that we...
My editing process is disorganized. Perhaps the only time when it gets better is when I print things out onto actual paper, sit at my desk, and cross things out. But there’s no process there, no real objective besides finding the really...
Saccharine, careless, melancholic, naive, questioning, questionable, dashing, daring, and vengeful. Inquisitive. Soaring! Doubtful, distrustful, apprehensive, hesitant, unready, unabridged, undecided, unwavering. Woeful. Well-researched,...
I’m happy with this here website for the first time in years. There’s still a lot to fix but since I nuked my website and started from almost-scratch a few months ago, I think this is a good place to stop and look back at what I’ve built...
Neil Gaiman in Smoke and Mirrors: (Fairy tales, as G.K. Chesteron once said, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.)
Daniel Temkin’s Olympus sounds punk as hell: We command machines as if they were are servants, and yet they often do not do what we want. Olympus is a new programming language which better reflects the actual power dynamic of programmer...
I was trawling through the interweb the other night and I saw someone mention “ranged media queries.” My immediate thought was how dare anyone ship ranged media queries without consulting me and then my second thought was what the heck...
TypeMedia is a type design masters program in the Netherlands and each year a graduating class of designers band together to make a little website showcasing their work. I get real excited for these because they’re always a delight and...