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
Have you ever heard of Jusant? If not then skip all this — don’t read another word and go pick up the game. I think it might be my favorite of the year. I booted up Jusant in the early afternoon and was feeling pretty cynical about...
A personal website sits on the blurry line between a corporate entity and a skate park. Because a personal website has everything in its future; career connections and maybe weirdo web friends out there, potential ad money to be squeezed...
I kept bugging him, over and over again. How does cd work? How do I search my previous commands? How do I exit out of Vim? Wait, what even is Vim? And then how do I string multiple commands together? What fonts should I use for my...
Here’s Michelle Barker on why we should stop using AI-generated images: By choosing AI-generated images over those made by a human, editors are taking away one of the only sources of income available to those entering the field. This...
I’ve been a big fan of Manuel Moreale’s People and Blogs for a while now. In this lovely series of interviews, Manu asks web folks he admires how they got started writing on the ol’ www and it always makes for a fun read. Today though I...
I’ve only just stumbled upon Nuform Type from Erik Marinovich but I’m so glad that I did. His type foundry has some remarkable work and beautiful fonts but the websites! Man, the websites. I wish my eye for shape and color was half as...
It’s been a while, huh? It’s foolish of me to run away from this website since it always makes me feel better but once every other year I do. It all seems useless. Blogging, I mean. The pursuit of self improvement and reflection without...
Here’s one way to improve the thing you’re writing: cut the intro. Writing about the symbiosis between trees and mushrooms? Don’t start talking about how humanity has depended on trees since the blah blah blah. Just jump right in!...
Earlier today I wrote a thing for the ol’ newsletter about which color space you should use in CSS and I mostly focused on background gradients just to explain the core concepts to myself. However! I totally missed this post about why...
I’m starting a new project called The Cascade, a weekly newsletter that’s entirely dedicated to the front-of-the-front-end and CSS specifically, with the very first edition coming hot off the press tomorrow morning. My goal here, for...
I’ve always loved a good footer at the end of a website. It sets the tone for how you leave, gives you links to more interesting things, and is the last chance for a bit of whimsy and fun and charm. footer.design is a great collection of...
Sometimes I get bored of typography. Lately I’ve just seen the same stuff over and over again; the same kind of websites, the same kind of aesthetic, the same letters. They’re on billboards and websites and printed in books, and this rut...
Erin Kissane just published a fantastic and terrifying piece about Meta’s complicity in the genocide of Rohingya people in Myanmar: From far away, I think Meta’s role in the Rohingya crisis can feel blurry and debatable—it was content...
I’ve been showing my work to design teams at companies lately and these conversations can be brutal. Not the acting or the showmanship or the awkward silences. Not even my terrible, unforgivably bad jokes. What I struggle with most is...
Nicholas Rougeux made this wonderful archive of Metra train tickets from Chicago, and it reaches back more than 50 years. Nicholas just updated the gallery, making it easier to navigate and what not and so I’m embarrassed I’ve never seen...