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
In his excellent newsletter, Font of the Month Club (which I cannot recommend more highly), DJR wrote about variable fonts and how they’ve been out for a while yet they still feel like an experimental technology: In my perception,...
I can be whoever I want and no-one can tell me otherwise. I can be funny or dark, a romantic or a raging goth. I can be a typographer, a web designer, a poet. Tomorrow? My accent can change, the colors revert, typefaces flipped inside...
Paul Ford describes his climate mid-life crisis: I began to feel a strong sense of déjà vu. I couldn't place it until, one night, in the glow of the e-reader, I realized: It's Web 1.0 all over again. We are in the Pets.com-puppet-mascot...
I was reading Alberto Manguel’s Packing My Library on the train back to SF the other day and the moment I read this passage I hurriedly underlined it over and over again: There exists, perhaps, in all human imagination, an unspoken...
Lucy made a huge spreadsheet to help her see the status of her project and hot dang it looks scary to me: This was actually hugely helpful, because I've been watching my overachiever tendencies flare up during meetings with Susan,...
Bookmarking this post from Kris Sowersby all about his new type family, Epicene: Epicene Text & Display are Baroque typefaces inspired by the work of two 18th century maestros: J-F. Rosart and J.M. Fleischmann. Typographically, Epicene’s...
I know talking about Matt Levine’s newsletter is like talking about how much you love Tame Impala (did you know that he plays all his own instruments???), but dangit—Matt’s writing consistently great. Like this piece: Investment banking...
It’s not often that a website makes me gasp but MÖRK BORG did the trick. It’s a D’n’D-esque game which I don’t know much about but the overall weirdness of this game and the website itself is just...beautiful. Take the footnotes, for...
These are the days that I want; half in a book, half in a text file, halfway through two videogames in two separate rooms. I am plodding through ideas, running from room to room, from one thing to another. These most perfect of days...
“In vast portions of this country,” wrote Rebecca Traister back in 2019, “Roe might as well not exist already”: [For] years, I’ve listened to Democratic politicians distance themselves from abortion by calling it tragic and insisting it...
Just as I finished moaning about not finding any good reading out there, I spotted this post by Marcin on how he fixed old photographs for his book: Somehow, through hard work of people much smarter than me, I could go deep into the...
Lately I’m feeling rather ugh. I know why; reading has lost its luster. I find myself uninterested in almost every book, every essay, every tweet. One morning I’ll get all excited and pick up a book that someone recommends and...
I love Bay Curious. I’ve been listening to it for the last few weeks as I make my way down the Secret Coffee Corridor and then trek up and over Holly Park for coffee each morning. And sure, I’ve never really listened to a podcast about...
Bryan Braun: A link, on the open internet, is a vote. It’s your way of saying, “this is great, and more people should know about it.” We talk about how much power the search engines have, but if you think about it, the search engines...
Casey Johnston: Waiting in line, waiting for someone at a coffee shop, sitting on a bus—at these moments, people tend not to feel particularly in control. Phones appear automatically in your hand at such moments, and mobile games with...