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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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...
I see this all the time in design circles: a lot of folks tend to think their work must be vital in order for it to be good. Their ego demands that they wake up every day and change the world before lunch. (Hello, it is me). I feel like...
I’m obsessed with this documentary about Black Mesa, a game developed by the Crowbar Collective which is a HD copy of, and a lover letter to, Half Life. It’s a fascinating series of interviews because even if you don’t give two hoots...
A couple of months back, Craig mentioned in a video that he has a doc filled to the brim with snippets of text—nice words, compliments, and thanks that had been sent his way for his work. Whenever someone says something nice he just...
Big news! Hot off the press, Chris writes: CSS-Tricks, this very website you’re looking at, has been acquired by DigitalOcean! [...] I will be working with the DigitalOcean team as an advisor as we transition CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean’s...
Lovely work from Alisa Burzic here called 36 Days of Type; once a day she makes a beautiful letter and although right now it’s just a bunch of tweets, it would be so cool to see each of these in a big scrolly website. Each of these...
The British countryside is all violins and pianos and I have my proof; just look out there. The train from Plymouth to Paddington is quiet but then I have two more trains—those completely unfamiliar to me—before reaching my top secret,...