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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By some cruel fate and in a long running conspiracy involving secret foreign governments and spies, not to mention the tens of millions of dollars of shady private funding that has been poured into this network of deception...something...
A while ago, Dora wrote about conducting user interviews: You have to stop adding your own voice and take to the topic. For example, don’t ask “What do you like about A?” or “What do you not like about A?” Instead, ask “What do you think...
Chris wrote about the analytics that matter earlier this month: I’ve long been skeptical of quoting global browser usage percentages to justify their usage of browser features. It doesn’t matter what global usage of a browser is, other...
Good morning! One small tip for your Monday morning typographic perambulations: I think we should always make headings darker than the body text. It’s a small change but it has a significant impact on longer chunks of text and is...
I made this silly thing yesterday after I got back from a walk and was feeling rage beyond words: See the Pen Wear a mask animation by Robin Rendle (@robinrendle) on CodePen. I’ll be sure to write about how I made it in the CSS-Tricks...
Here’s a smart idea from Jonnie Hallman: adding a reply link at the end of an entry in an RSS feed. Just as Jonnie mentions there, some folks reach out with smart ideas via email to some notes that I have as well. But I should really...
Anne Trubek, writing in her excellent newsletter, Notes From A Small Press, has some thoughts about how writing a book isn’t really the point for many authors. Instead, they’re all attracted to the prestige of publishing and its many...
Jamelle Bouie: Most Republican senators voted to remove the unemployment expansion at its full size, but it survived. Billions of dollars of benefits have gone to tens of millions of Americans. The increase in aid was so great that, as...
Last night I sat down to test out a mic I just picked up and boy howdy I didn’t know I had this rant in me. In the future I’ll keep these much shorter perhaps but this one is apparently about: Audio logs and videogames!...
Well, now there’s a hot take huh. But let me explain. I think one of my shortcomings when it comes to design is this: I always want to fix the problem. I want to have the perfect idea, the perfect design doc, ready to go and implement...
I love the big dad energy of this introductory video to mmhmm, an app that lets you customize video presentations in a bunch of nifty ways. But what I like about it is that there’s no sense of “I hAvE rEdesIgned vIdEo FoR tHe 21st...
Now this is very interesting: the other day Robin released Sloanstarter, his very own crowdfunding campaign for his web/ebook/Kindle novella (personally, I prefer web novella or might I suggest webvella? Oh, I might not? Wow, rude.) The...
Via Robin’s newsletter I just spotted this release on Future Fonts of Nichrome by Mass-Driver, “a display face referencing the typography of paperback science fiction from the 70s and early 80s.” And these numbers in particular are...
On April 16th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from jail, where he was imprisoned for marching against segregation, and Jason Pamental made a rather lovely typeset version. In fact, Jason’s newsletter is a constant wellspring...
This is a reminder for myself in the future that all the work that Mandy Michael has been doing with variable fonts is remarkable and showcases what’s possible if we start to push the web into a weird place with fonts. See the Pen...