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The assortment of commercially available fonts is in constant flux. Typeface design is inevitably informed by media-specific conditions and the aesthetic discourse of the day.

Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70's edition of the book World of Logotypes. NOTE: I did not create any of this work! This book is out of print but can probably be found with some scouring.

robins own little space on the internet

Own your web persona… Break free of onerous platforms, fully control your content, and connect directly with your audience Use future-proof standard web protocols for a centralized profile with status updates and options for your audience to follow you without the middle-man.

Use any email or landing page design to build, edit, and review content with your team.

A research preview of AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time.

Threnody for a Reed Organ is an endlessly generative piece of music, composed and developed by Jay Tobin

absurd.website is a playground of creative experiments, blending art, fun, and unconventional ideas into digital experiences that challenge the norm.

I love the sensation of finding a new app that delights me.

Justin Hall, Melanie Hoff, and Are.na.

Taking an Internet Walk by Spencer Chang & Kristoffer Tjalve THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT In futuristic and cyberpunk media, we were promised a technological world “indistinguishable from magic:”…

(we)bsite (we)bsite is a living collection of internet dreams from people like you, inhabitants of the internet. It aims to create space to hold, show, and uplift everyday visions and hopes for the internet.

Do your part to improve world health by putting your website to sleep.

This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects. The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior. Looking at fundamentals, you build your mental model on the truth rather than on hypotheses constructed from evidence gathered while experimenting with the API.

Have you checked out the Toolbox theme? Up until recently it was the starter theme we used to build free and premium themes on WordPress.com. Toolbox was (and is!) a great theme, but it could be be…

The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.

Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.

A lovingly crafted handwriting-style monospace font. Oh yeah... and it's variable! Annotation Mono is an idealized handwriting; using letter forms inspired by monospace bitmap fonts, legibility is maximized while retaining a hand-written character.

i.webthings - an independent, noncommercial web initiative.

Welcome to Trivium, my new blog that aims to merge the best parts of a tumblelog and a “classic” blog full of editorial, essayish content (which is not that classic at all, but this will be the topic of a later post).

The scope of this piece, therefore, cannot be to teach you everything there is to know about typography. It cannot even be to teach you everything there is to know about legibility. For that reason, I will concentrate mainly on the shapes of letters and how their design can be conducive – or detrimental – to legibility.

Simulate a hole through Earth and learn where you would end up if you were to dig in that direction. Read this: https://vsueiro.com/work/supertunnel

Fontjoy helps designers choose the best font combinations. Mix and match different fonts for the perfect pairing.

This is a fork of the excelent vore.website (source) RSS feed reader. You can find the source code for Mire on Codeberg. Any contributions are welcome!

A collection of popular essays written here and elsewhere.