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.
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What’s the smallest amount of CSS that you can write to make HTML look halfway decent? I took a crack at that today after I removed all the styles from my website and went back to Eleventy. Here’s what I’ve got so far. First up you gotta...
What the who the what? I clearly have not been paying enough attention to Framer because they just released something called “Framer Sites” which looks impressive to say the least: but the TL;DR is that you can now use Framer as a full...
I just started an enormous project at work. It is blisteringly, gob-smackingly large. The biggest project I’ve ever worked on by far, and just the sort of thing not to be measured in sprints or seasons but whole dang years. And yes,...
Choosing a font is always a problem of size. Sure, you want to pick a serif or a fancy geometric sans—the style is important—but what’s the size of the text? There’s an enormous difference between 14px and 200px and likewise you can’t...
There’s a famous blogger who lives near me. We don’t know each other, I’m as far off their radar as could possibly be. But it reminds of what San Francisco felt like when I first moved here six years ago; less a city full of anonymous...
The most upsetting thing about Elden Ring is not the difficulty, it’s the sheer imagination of the world building. A lot of games are like here’s the snow zone, here’s the forest zone, here’s the desert zone. They’re really not much more...
Today I stumbled upon Typeface 3, a great mac app that lets you organize all your fonts and test em out before you use em. It’s part font library and part design tool, where you can quickly see which fonts have which features and then...
So I love CSS scroll-snap. I think it’s really, truly amazing. Sure, yes, it lets you make carousels that aren’t janky JavaScript nightmares—but I think they’re more than that because now we can make webpages feel more like, well,...
Jeremy doesn’t trust third-party code, but... I’m much more trusting of native browser features—HTML elements, CSS features, and JavaScript APIs. They’re not always perfect, but a lot of thought goes into their development. By the time...
Almost every life-changing event for me started as an email, so email is way more important than I give it credit for. I should take better care of them, and I’ve written before about how I need to send more nice emails to folks to say...
My parents and I are stood in a graveyard, looking up at a church in the perfect center of a quiant British countryside town. Everything around us is older than America; every brick and cobblestone path, every hedge and waist-high wall....
As I was reading this post from Jim about his setup I got wildly, incomprehensibly jealous; he writes about having a folder on his desktop that he can just throw stuff into and it publishes to a website. This, to me, is the absolute...
Here’s a fun thing: the other day Matthias linked to an old essay of mine—please do not read it because yikes—but I noticed that it looks very different now; the layout is busted in a few places, the animations have stopped altogether,...
The other day Amy Wibowo wrote this wondrous, illustrated essay about personal websites where she describes her growing up with the early web and how she got started: I want my website to be interesting and useful, but how? How indeed!...
A while back I read Russell Davies’s excellent Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint. It’s not really _just_ about learning how to make slide decks because extreme yawn. Instead, it’s a book about how to write well, how...