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
Here’s one for your RSS feeds: the blog of The Arrow Type foundry. That’s all.
This is a fabulous video by ContraPoints about J.K. Rowling, anti-trans sentiments, and what bigotry really is. I love Natalie’s videos for so many reasons—but this video reminds me why. Each of her arguments are like shots from an...
This piece by Jessica Boyall about the art of whaling is equal parts remarkable and horrifying: The first European settlers arrived at Nantucket, an isolated island some thirty miles from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1659. They built...
His voice is gone and the world is better for it. Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke, I don’t even need to say his name. But for the past five years his voice has poisoned everything. Those five years taught me that power is no longer about...
Alberto Manguel, writing in The Library at Night: The Web, and its promise of a voice and a site for all, is our equivalent of the mare incognitum, the unknown sea that lured ancient travelers with the temptation of discovery. Immaterial...
Adventures in Typography is back, folks! After a far too long hiatus I’m bringing this little newsletter back for what I’m calling Season 3—I’ll publish one each Sunday from now until spring. That way I can give myself a goal without it...
Descript is incredible; it’s an app for making transcriptions and recording podcasts/videos. The interface for editing everything is absolutely buck wild because you can edit the transcribed text from the audio you’ve recorded and that...
Here’s a neat newsletter about the web and accessibility from David A. Kennedy. Looks like a lot of interesting links with each issue and if you’re interested in learning more about a11y then I think it’s most certainly worth checking out.
Here is a website. Click on it. You’ll find yourself sat in front of a giant pirate treasure map with absolutely no clue as to what it is or how to use it. Scroll around a bit and you’ll see islands of text floating in the open ocean and...
Dang! I love this automated book review and publish setup by Katy Decorah. She made a GitHub action called read-action to fetch the metadata of a book and add it to a yaml file on her website. After that, Katy then made an iOS Shortcut...
Jon Lovett’s 2013 commencement speech is great: One of the greatest threats we face, simply put, is bullshit. We are drowning in it [...] I believe we are at peak bullshit.
Here's a fabulous talk by Jonathan Blow about the quality of software, video games, and...ahem...the end of civilization. One of the really interesting parts of this talk is when Blow mentions just how much energy is required to teach...
Anna Wiener: Just as there is “podcast voice”—that inquisitive, staccato bedtime-story cadence—there is Substack tone, a semi-professional quality suited to mass e-mail. Some newsletters convey intimacy, in the language of psychotherapy...
I spotted Etna the other day and it’s pretty remarkable. It’s a new typefamily by Mark Simonson, inspired by wood type in the 19th century, and the micro-site is so much fun even if you absolutely hate fonts and your nemesis is a .woff...
Borges was a racist. And Borges wrote beautiful things. The latter does not excuse the former but I struggle to live in a world where both of these things can be true. I've always struggled with it, in fact. Read The Book of Sand and try...