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
I love the look of this: Occupant Oldstyle by Cyrus Highsmith and and June Shin. It’s a perfect addition to the Occupant Fonts library; Oldstyle is playful and silly—look at that Q!—and yet seriously constructed—look at the numbers! The...
Rutherford Craze on the design of MD Nichrome: …something I think about a lot in my work is the idea of the technology gap. When a creative work moves from one medium to another, not every part of it survives the transition: the digital...
For the CSS-Tricks newsletter, I wrote a bit about all the weird browsers I’ve been seeing lately: ...it feels like there’s something in the air when it comes to browsers. Folks are starting to think about them differently and that’s...
White Tears kicked my ass and it’s impossible to describe why. I read it in three or four big gulps this week but it’s so good that I’m still in a deep fit of despair about just how good it all was. It’s a novel by Hari Kunzru about...
Here’s a beautiful book called the Manual of Diacritics by Radek Sidun. Diacritics are those peculiar shapes above and below characters that are mostly absent in English—façade and naïve are those rare leftovers—but these marks are...
Adam J Calhoun: Inspired by a series of posters, I wondered what did my favorite books look like without words. Can you tell them apart or are they all a-mush? In fact, they can be quite distinct. Take my all-time favorite book, Absalom,...
Jim Nielsen on removing the hurdles to blogging: If the goal of your blog is to blog, i.e. to write and publish, then start by removing everything that gets in the way of that goal. Eschew anything beyond writing the content of a post....
Willy Staley wrote a piece about The Sopranos and captured why it’s so gosh darn good: Biederman argued that the show is, at its heart, about the bathetic nature of decline. “Decline not as a romantic, singular, aesthetically...
In his excellent newsletter, Font of the Month Club (which I cannot recommend more highly), DJR wrote about variable fonts and how they’ve been out for a while yet they still feel like an experimental technology: In my perception,...
I can be whoever I want and no-one can tell me otherwise. I can be funny or dark, a romantic or a raging goth. I can be a typographer, a web designer, a poet. Tomorrow? My accent can change, the colors revert, typefaces flipped inside...
Paul Ford describes his climate mid-life crisis: I began to feel a strong sense of déjà vu. I couldn't place it until, one night, in the glow of the e-reader, I realized: It's Web 1.0 all over again. We are in the Pets.com-puppet-mascot...
I was reading Alberto Manguel’s Packing My Library on the train back to SF the other day and the moment I read this passage I hurriedly underlined it over and over again: There exists, perhaps, in all human imagination, an unspoken...
Lucy made a huge spreadsheet to help her see the status of her project and hot dang it looks scary to me: This was actually hugely helpful, because I've been watching my overachiever tendencies flare up during meetings with Susan,...
Bookmarking this post from Kris Sowersby all about his new type family, Epicene: Epicene Text & Display are Baroque typefaces inspired by the work of two 18th century maestros: J-F. Rosart and J.M. Fleischmann. Typographically, Epicene’s...
I know talking about Matt Levine’s newsletter is like talking about how much you love Tame Impala (did you know that he plays all his own instruments???), but dangit—Matt’s writing consistently great. Like this piece: Investment banking...