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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Here’s a real interesting piece about gifts and software: Not every project on github is the same. Not everyone has the same motivations. Giving them money won't change their motivations. Trying to pay them or regulate them taints the...
Today I fixed a few bugs and updated the colors and spacing; the little things, stuff no-one will notice. But dang, it feels so very good to tweak my website and watch 12 hours straight of The Lord of the Rings. It shakes off the...
I reckon 2021 was the best year for CSS since…2015? I haven’t felt this level of excitement and momentum in years. In the last twelve months container queries and the :has pseudo selector went from a pipe dream to almost-shipping in...
Dan Brooks: This is how NFTs make me feel: like the future is useless but expensive, and world-altering technology is now in the hands of a culture so aesthetically and spiritually impoverished that it should maybe go back to telling...
I wrote a lil thing about why we should care about writing, even as front-end developers and designers: How do you make a great website? Everyone has an answer at the ready: Flashy animations! The latest punk-rock CSS trick! Gradients!...
Elaina Natario on the perceived femininity of CSS and the sexism that haunts our industry: There are surely plenty of people of marginalized gender experience in all programming spaces, but they don’t have as much opportunity to surface...
I know I’m somewhat biased, but oh boy oh man howdy do I love this collection of end of year thoughts over on CSS-Tricks. I especially love this note from Geoff when he argues to carefully read your website: If there’s only one thing you...
Vectro Type is a heckin’ neat website and type foundry from the folks that made Chartwell—a somewhat revolutionary font from back in the day that let you type in a series of numbers (c+67+33 for example) and it’s OpenType magic would...
I’ve only just started this excellent book called Web Browser Engineering but it’s already so dang good that I have to stop reading it in order to quote this section: The web is a grand, crazy experiment. It’s natural, nowadays, to watch...
Everyone shut up, Saunders is talking: In my early thirties I saw myself as a Hemingwayesque realist. My material: the time I'd spent working in the oil fields in Asia. I wrote story after story out of that material, and everything I...
One thing I love about Retail by OhNo Type Co. is that the type specimen is sort of like an essay. As you scroll through and see each of the designs for the bold, the thin, and the display styles, you also get a story about the design of...
For some daft reason I keep forgetting that you can buy fonts from I Love Typography now. They have a growing catalogue of foundries with buck wild designs and it’s worth coming back to see what just released. Take Platia by Omega Type...
What the absolute what: Teranoptia is a typeface without letters, a peculiar contraption that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures just by typing letters with your keyboard. Its design has been inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and by...
CJ Hauser: It turns out, if you want to save a species, you don’t spend your time staring at the bird you want to save. You look at the things it relies on to live instead. You ask if there is enough to eat and drink. You ask if there is...
This thing is remarkable. Designed by Andy Clymer back in 2019, Tilt is a family of the three typefaces based on signage that Andy spotted around New York City. There’s Neon, Prism, and Warp—my favorite here is Prism: Tilt Prism...