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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Back in 2013 when I started my career there were a few big problems with CSS: We had to rely on Sass to get variables which made everything a lot more complicated than necessary (build environments and the like). We had to rely on a...
The Book Cover Review is a great project by David Pearson; it’s a website with quick, 500-word reviews of book covers from guest designers, typographers, and writers. It all looks lovely! Fine typesetting, cute and slightly odd...
It’s hard to be a person this morning. I find myself tired and angry, unsure of what to type, read, or do. My brisk early morning walk around the block is usually enough to jolt me awake as there’s ample time for a dazzling podcast or a...
If you’ve yet to play The Case of the Golden Idol then here’s another, louder reminder: go play it! It’s a fabulous detective game made up of a series of puzzles in which you have to figure out who is who, how they got murdered, and then...
Jenny on the relationship between your job and The Good Work™: I love work, by which I mean I love the feeling of focusing my energy toward a particular goal and watching the nebulous mist between here and there slowly thin to reveal...
When readers in Western Europe turned their eyes to printed books, around the middle of the 15th century, handwritten books became old-fashioned, unwanted, and ultimately obsolete. Bookbinders began to disassemble medieval manuscripts...
Marcin’s upcoming book about typewriters, Shift Happens, now has a glorious website where you can see what the finished thing is going to look like: Shift Happens is full of stories – some never before told – interleaved with 1,000+...
The new year is upon us! As I’ve lounged around the Christmas tree and drunk as much mulled wine as humanly possible (alas not that much because I am weak), I’ve been wondering if this was a good year for writing. What did I get done?...
Ya know something I’ve never played with before? SVG filters. Sure, I’ve taken a look at the tutorials and clicked around a few Pens here and there, but I’ve never fully invested in them as I didn’t ever see the point—I’m never going to...
A couple of months ago I moved my day-to-day internet life to Mastodon and you can find me here: fonts@sfba.social It almost, sort of, kinda feels like the fowl place back in 2008 or so when folks shared pictures of cool daffodils and...
Ahmad Shadeed wrote a fantastic thing about style queries the other day that I’m still trying to wrap my head around: Recently, the Chrome team released experimental support for a new proposed CSS spec, style queries. In short, they let...
For a start, when we consider rules, we have to ask: whose rules? That’s Cecelia Watson writing about punctuation and grammar in the fabulous little book I read last night called Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a...
Note to self: this week you need to sit down and play around with IndieKit, a tool that lets you publish things to your website. Here’s Paul Robert Lloyd writing about why he built this thing and what it does: Today I’m formally...
Ya know when a book might not be the best thing ever written but it’s the perfect book for you at that very moment? That’s what Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation was for me this weekend. I read this thing with righteous fury as...
Chris has a lot of exciting stuff to say about Arc here and why he hasn’t been interested in other browsers until now: I’ve developed some doubts about how much value a skin over an existing browser engine can actually bring. Like, don’t...