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Discover Nutgame, the versatile Sans Serif font that effortlessly elevates your designs with a captivating 70s retro flair. Norko: A Sharp-Geometric Sans Serif with a Cinematic Twist Norko, a YouWorkForThem Exclusive, is a geometric sans serif with a distinctive twist. It introduces subtle flared terminals that add personality to its sharp, structured form. This unique detail makes it ideal for bold applications like movie titles, social media graphics, and editorial headlines where a modern voice with character is needed.

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

The first episode of Hidden Brain explores switchtracking: a common pattern in conversations you'll be accusing your partner of in no time! Plus speedy science, a cup of tea and a song from Adam Cole.

A list of all my slash pages

annie's blog is a blog on the Pika blogging platform

The microblog of Steven, a tech and app enthusiast who also loves running and photography.

See also: Share your shit, and Don’t wait for tomorrow - Start now, and Please please please please please please share your big dumb beautiful self with the world Humans are easy...

Cartographer is a procedurally generated persistent multiplayer exploration game. Cartographer is an exploration game centered around navigating biomes, exploring a generated world, and reading and leaving pins for other visitors of the world to read.

TypeTrials is a tool designed for testing variable fonts and much more! Powered by Pangram Pangram Foundry

Random prompt generator for whiteboard design practice. Origin story Designercize is a digital version of an analog whiteboard exercise originally created by Kate Rutter and Laura Klein to help designers improve whiteboarding, interviewing, and design thinking skills. It's been honed over thousands of practice sessions with Tradecraft designers. The designercize app was created by Tradecraft design

Tell a secret, hear a secret. “If you could have a conversation with someone who’s no longer alive, who would it be, and what would you talk about?”

A new approach to a classic. Welcome to Marco Del Valle's personal portfolio. I'm a creative developer specializing in 3D visualizations, game development, and animated sites. I've worked in the automotive, entertainment, consumer-product, and advertising industries, where I have built several award-winning websites.

Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy.

This piece is about pictures drawn using a text character set and then embedded in source code. I love these! The other day I asked around on Twitter for more examples and the responses far exceeded expectations (thanks everyone!). There are a ton of great examples in the thread; here I’ve categorized a few of them. Click on images go to the repositories.

10+ years ago I created an annual list of websites that FORBADE you from linking to them, DEMANDED you write to ask for permission or LIMITED links to only their home page. Royal Mail even promised…

Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web.

~hedy's home: hedy's canonical web presence including contact information and a blog.

Welcome to the Old Internet Again!

Making things simple, radical and beautiful

This research rethinks paragraph formatting, inspired by techniques from Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts to challenge conventional layouts. Funded by the Leenaards Foundation and supported by Adobe’s plugin tools, the project led to the “Alternative Layout System” plugin, now available for free download on the website. A publication showcasing designers’ experiments with these scripts is also accessible on the website’s “Publication”

MillionDollarHomepage was a phenomenon in the days of the early social Internet. How many projects have tried to repeat its success?

Welcome to the TymeSqr Experiment. The Rules: - Anyone can buy a Square to publish any image they want - The price of a Square doubles each time it is bought, awarding x1.5 to the previous owner +1% on all the future transactions for that Square. - EU citizens only Have fun

HyperTextHero’s no hero but plays one on the web, flying between work and play to brighten days.

WiseType is an independent digital type foundry run by Jacob Wise.

This page represents a destination for links that do not yet exist! When I think of projects or formulate material for this site, I often find myself thinking of multiple posts at the same time, intertwined with each other. As a result, I place this "future link" where I would link to a future post that hasn't been published yet, and then I can later find the spots where I need to update links using a simple grep command.

Notifications stand to be one of the most important things in our personal computing domain. But today, this sacred space fails to achieve that ideal because it is home to others' priorities over our own.

Last month Katherine called out the tension inherent in a “personal” website which is that it is both public and personal, and one’s public (or professional) persona is often different from that of their personal life. Robin Rendle riffed on the concept and said that it’s totally fine for personal websites to be messy or imperfect or weird (i.e., not necessarily how you’d want to present a “professional” front) and declared, in a pretty great and punchy/pithy statement, “You’re a poem and not software”. Manu also picked up the thread and brought up a good point which is that people are complex and are allowed to have multiple selves that they present in different ways (and one great thing about your website is that it’s yours and you can choose which self or selves to present, and how).

Since the 1980s, Japanese company Nintendo has become one of the most famous brands worldwide for its legendary video games and consoles. Join us as we explore how changes in their logo accompanied their huge success.

This website is a trip down memory lane. I'm not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.

Learn how to create your own digital garden using Tiddly Wiki with this step-by-step guide.